Trollsbane
) Trollsbane 
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|---|---|
| Base item | Morning star |
| Damage vs. small | 2d4 ×2 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d6+1 ×2 |
| To-hit bonus | +1d5 |
| Bonus versus | trolls |
| Weapon skill | Morning star |
| Size | one-handed |
| Affiliation | |
| When carried |
(none) |
| When wielded |
(none) |
| When invoked |
(none) |
| Base price | 200 zm |
| Weight | 120 |
| Material | iron |
Trollsbane is an artifact weapon that, against trolls, does double damage and +1d5 to-hit. As of NetHack 3.6.1, wielding Trollsbane prevents trolls from reviving.
Strategy
Most players agree that Trollsbane is essentially useless, for several reasons:
- It is effective only on trolls, a very small group of total monsters.
- It uses the morning star weapon skill, which you are not likely to use for anything else, as it is not a particularly good weapon and there are no other artifact morning stars.
- Even against trolls, it only does an average damage of 9. By comparison, the +0 Excalibur does 14 average damage and is considerably easier to get (at least for lawful characters).
However, its ability to prevent trolls from reviving could be useful for the troll-infested Barbarian quest.
Variants
dNetHack
Trollsbane is made of silver and instantly kills trolls. It also deals extra damage to regenerating and covetous monsters, and it petrifies gremlins. Furthermore, it warns of trolls.
SporkHack
In SporkHack it has been dramatically improved. It grants hungerless regeneration while wielded, deals +d4 bonus damage to all monsters and has a 50% chance of instantly destroying trolls on a successful hit. It's still not particularly good, but it's at least worth keeping around now.
UnNetHack
In UnNetHack it grants hungerless regeneration while wielded and has a 1/5 chance of instantly killing trolls. It also prevents them from leaving corpses, and warns of them.
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