User:Chris/dNetHack/Role Changes

Archeologist

• Special alignment penalties made harsher.
• Itlachiayaque Patch installed.
  • Itlachiayaque is a shield of reflection (thus, automatically confers 2 AC and reflection).
  • It confers ESP, magic resistance, half spell damage and fire resistance when carried.
  • When invoked, it creates a stinking cloud that the player can place unless Itlachiayaque is cursed or the player is not an Archeologist.

Barbarians

• Can reach expert in Broadsword and Trident.
• Barbarians now have iterative attacks when in their natural form:
  • At 11th level, they start making two attacks per turn, one at full to-hit, the next one at -10.
  • At 21st level, they start making three attacks per turn, at full, -10 and -20.
  • At 30th level, they make four attacks per turn, at full, -10, -20 and -30.
  • Should they wish to make fewer attacks, they may do so as n(number)F.

Knights

• Can reach expert in polearms but only basic in two-weapon fighting.
• Can expend 30 energy to turn undead in 1 turn instead of 5.
• Special alignment penalties made harsher.
• Clarent patch implemented, with Clarent as the Knight first gift.
  • Clarent has the following properties:
    • Intelligent lawful short sword
    • Can be used to dig
    • When invoked, reveals the location of your retinue (all tame creatures) on the level, and increases the tameness of any within line of sight
    • Acts as a luckstone
    • Clarent submits to being held second to Excalibur (but not the other way around)
    • Annoys demons
    • If Clarent is stuck in a wall/door/tree/stone, then it can be pulled out by #untrap as long as you are at least devoutly lawful
    • Is not generated at random.
    • +d8+2 to hit and +d2 damage against thick-skinned monsters (all gargoyles, all mimics, all naga, all baby naga, all dragons, all baby dragons, the Chromatic Dragon, Ixoth, {gold, wood, clay, stone, glass, iron} golems, mumakil, titanotheres, baluchitheria, mastodons, earth elementals, xorn, skeletons, horned devils, barbed devils, sharks, crocodiles, salamanders).

Monks

• Receive (level) extra AC when confused, as a reference to drunken boxing
• Receive extra AC if they aren't wearing body armor. Dependent on wisdom and level. At best (level 30 and 25 wisdom) 13 extra AC
• Intrinsic energy resistance is more valuable in dnethack, as intrinsic energy resistances gained from eating corpses now time out.
• Their crowning gift has been changed from the outright useless spellbook of restore ability to Grandmaster's Robe, a robe that switches martial arts dice from 1d4 to 1d8, uses exploding dice, and gives double the normal robe effect for spellcasting

Priest

• Can attack more effectively with artifacts
  • Always receive the artifact's to-hit bonus
  • Always receive the maximum to-hit bonus (ie, receive +10 to-hit instead of +1d10)
  • Inflict +1dlevel bonus damage when attacking with an artifact
  • 20% reduction in invocation wait period.
• Can expend 30 energy to turn undead in 1 turn instead of 5.

Samurai

• Can reach skilled in polearms, and gain a +1 skill-level bonus when using naginatas (glaives).
• Female samurai start with a glaive and a knife instead of a katana and a shortsword.
• Special alignment penalties made harsher.

Tourist

• Quest monsters revised to better reflect Ank-Morpork.

Valkyries

• Can reach expert in spear but only skilled in longsword.
• Start with a +1 spear instead of a +1 longsword (as in Slash'EM).
• Start with leather armor and +1 small shields.
• Get fractionally more energy per level (1x instead of 3/4x)
• Can no longer twoweapon