Silver
Silver is a material composing a few items in the Dungeons of Doom. Silver cannot corrode or rust and hinders spellcasting when worn as armor. Striking with a silver object will deal silver damage against certain monster types. Any item made of silver is eligible for dealing damage to shades.
List of silver items
The following items are made of silver:
- silver sabers (including Grayswandir and Werebane)
- silver arrows
- silver daggers
- silver spears
- wands with the randomized appearance “silver wand”
- rings with the randomized appearance “silver ring”
- shields of reflection
- The Bell of Opening (a silver bell)
Notable non-silver items
Some items have silver in their name but this refers to their color, not their composition. These items (which do not deal silver damage) include:
- silver dragon scales and silver dragon scale mail (both are made of dragon hide)
- spellbooks with the randomized appearance “silver spellbook” (all spellbooks are made of paper)
Silver damage
Creatures vulnerable to silver are called silver-hating creatures. The following creatures are silver-hating:[1]
- all V vampires
- shades
- all proper & major demons (i.e. excluding riders, mail daemons, djinn and sandestins)
- all i minor demons, except tengu
- all lycanthropes
When one of these creatures is struck by a silver item, it will suffer an extra d20 damage.[2][3] This includes wielded non-weapons, or a silver ring worn while using hand to hand combat or martial arts without gloves (be careful!). Remembering which of your wands and rings are made of silver can be very helpful in a pinch, because you can wield them to deal silver damage (though you cannot twoweapon in that state). Silver shields, and the Bell of Opening can also be wielded for silver damage if you happen to be carrying them (though again, you cannot twoweapon with these items). You do NOT deal silver damage if you wield a silver arrow, though you can twoweapon with them (you can even wield two silver arrow stacks, one in each hand). Nor can you do silver damage by throwing silver arrows without a bow.
Only silver objects, artifact weapons with damage bonus, magic, or blessed weapons can harm shades, thus in some circumstances a make shift silver weapon can be very valuable in the Orcus Town.
Unlike other damage bonuses, this extra damage will not be doubled by artifacts such as Grayswandir or Werebane.
