Leather cloak
[ leather cloak 
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|---|---|
| Appearance | leather cloak |
| Slot | cloak |
| AC | 1 |
| Special | |
| Base price | 40 zm |
| Weight | 15 |
| Material | leather |
A leather cloak is a type of cloak that appears in NetHack. It provides MC1 and one point of AC when worn.
Generation
They are often generated on mercenaries as part of their starting inventory.
Strategy
Though strictly superior to the more common dwarvish and orcish cloaks, leather cloaks are generally used as temporary coverage for body armor until you can procure a magical cloak, e.g. a cloak of protection, elven cloak, or cloak of magic resistance.
History
The leather cloak was introduced in NetHack 3.4.0 - the buglist indicates that it was added to resolve the incongruity of human soldiers being generated with elven cloaks.
Variants
The leather cloak appears in the inventory of the Binder role originating from dNetHack that is also present in SLASH'EM Extended.
SLASH'EM
Since dwarvish and orcish cloaks have been buffed to MC2, almost any cloak is preferable to this one: higher magic cancellation is well worth a point of AC. The only exception might be for a character who already has MC 2 or MC 3, perhaps from a cornuthaum (MC2 in slash'em) or mithril-coat (MC3 in slash'em), in which case the leather cloak may be preferable.
