Dragonbane

)   Dragonbane
Base item	broadsword
Damage vs. small	2d4 x2
Damage vs. large	1d6+1 x2
To-hit bonus	+1d5
Bonus versus	dragons
Weapon skill	broadsword
Size	one-handed
Affiliation	unaligned
When carried	(none)
When wielded	(none)
When invoked	(none)
Base price	500 zm
Weight	70
Material	iron

Dragonbane is an artifact weapon that does double damage against dragons. Like most artifacts that target a specific class of monster, Dragonbane is largely useless in the general case. However, getting Dragonbane from sacrificing will unrestrict broadsword skill, which might allow you to wield Stormbringer effectively, if you found it in a bones pile.

In the development version which will become NetHack 3.6.1, it grants reflection when wielded.

Variants

)   Dragonbane
Base item	dwarvish spear
Damage vs. small	1d8 x2
Damage vs. large	1d8 x2
To-hit bonus	+1d5
Bonus versus	dragons
Weapon skill	dwarvish spear
Size	one-handed
Affiliation	unaligned
When carried	(none)
When wielded	Fire resistance Cold resistance Shock resistance Poison resistance Disintegration resistance Sleep resistance Acid resistance
When invoked	(none)
Base price	500 zm
Weight	30
Material	iron

In SporkHack, UnNetHack, and SLASH'EM, Dragonbane is instead a dwarvish spear that confers fire, cold, acid, sleep, disintegration and shock resistance while wielded, and has a 50% chance of instantly slaying dragons (instakill chance is reduced to 20% for UnNetHack). It also gets +d5 to hit and +d4 damage against all enemies. (If you are polymorphed into a dragon, a monster wielding Dragonbane can instantly kill you!)

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