Warg
d warg 
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| Difficulty | 8 |
| Attacks |
Bite 2d6 |
| Base level | 7 |
| Base experience | 92 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 4 |
| Base MR | 0 |
| Alignment | -5 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 2 (Quite rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 850 |
| Nutritional value | 350 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed |
None |
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A warg:
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| Reference | monst.c#line268 |
A warg, d, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. It is a medium-sized carnivorous canine that can be seen via infravision and is a stronger form of wolf, though wolves do not grow up into wards.
A warg has a single bite attack.
Generation
Randomly generated wargs are always created hostile, and may appear in small groups.
Werewolvess can summon hostile wargs by calling for help, with a 1⁄10 chance of generating a hostile warg on each adjacent square[1] - a character that gets lycanthropy from a werewolf can similarly summon tame wargs using the #monster extended command by expending 10 power.
Wargs appear among the random d that are part of the first quest monster class for Samurai and make up 24⁄175 of the monsters randomly generated on the Samurai quest.
Strategy
While they are no faster or better in terms of AC than wolves, wargs still pose much of the same hurdles: a lone warg can be handled with some care by a prepared character, but packs of wargs and their bite attacks can spell serious trouble if you are slow, underpowered or else inattentive, and werewolves can surround you with wargs and other wolf-like monsters unless handled wisely.
On top of the usual melee and area-of-effect strategies for handling groups of monsters, wargs lack any MR score like weaker canines, leaving them quite vulnerable to magic and elemental attacks. Take out werewolves as soon as possible to ensure that they cannot overwhelm you with hordes of wargs and other lupine threats.
Origin
Encyclopedia entry
Suddenly Aragorn leapt to his feet. "How the wind howls!" he cried. "It is howling with wolf-voices. The Wargs have come west of the Mountains!"
"Need we wait until morning then?" said Gandalf. "It is as I said. The hunt is up! Even if we live to see the dawn, who now will wish to journey south by night with the wild wolves on his trail?"
"How far is Moria?" asked Boromir.
"There was a door south-west of Caradhras, some fifteen miles as the crow flies, and maybe twenty as the wolf runs," answered Gandalf grimly.
"Then let us start as soon as it is light tomorrow, if we can," said Boromir. "The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears."
"True!" said Aragorn, loosening his sword in its sheath. "But where the warg howls, there also the orc prowls."
