Drow (SLASH'EM)
@ drow 
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| Difficulty | 9 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 2d4 sleep, Weapon 2d4 |
| Base level | 6 |
| Base experience | 89 |
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | 4 |
| Base MR | 60 |
| Alignment | −9 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 800 |
| Nutritional value | 350 |
| Size | Medium |
| Resistances | sleep |
| Resistances conveyed | sleep (40%) |
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A drow:
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| Reference | SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line3757 |
A drow, @, is a type of monster that appears in SLASH'EM and SlashTHEM. The drow is a strong and omnivorous type of elf that is a |lord to his kind and is always generated as male, though their corpses are used for drow heroes that can be male or female. Tame drow may turn traitor.
A drow has two weapon attacks, with the first capable of puting targets to sleep, and possesses sleep resistance like other elves.
Eating a drow corpse or tin has a 2⁄5 chance (40%) of conveying sleep resistance.
Generation
Randomly generated drow are always created hostile, and may appear in small groups. They are not a valid form for polymorph.
Drow are always generated with a dark elven mithril-coat, a dark elven short sword, a dark elven bow, and a stack of 3-15 dark elven arrows.[1]
Drow may appear among the @ generated within the Lawful Quest's Chamber of Junk, including the ones that are generated as peaceful.
Strategy
The drow's sleep-inducing melee attack can be very dangerous for unprepared heroes, but can be completely nullified by sleep resistance is and almost completely blocked by MC3, rendering them much less threatening opponents against elven and drow heroes. Their guaranteed dark elven mithril-coat can be a useful upgrade for non-spellcasting characters until they obtain a dragon scale mail.
As elven monsters, elven heroes (who are lawful in these variants rather than chaotic as in NetHack) will want to avoid eating or sacrificing drow corpses, while drow heroes can use them for same-race sacrifice. Other heroes will find drow corpses to be a useful source of sleep resistance and a decent source of nutrition.
