Staff of war
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| Name | staff of war |
| Appearance | wormwood staff |
| Damage vs. small | 1d6 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d6 |
| To-hit bonus | +2 |
| Weapon skill | quarterstaff |
| Size | two-handed |
| Base price | 400 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Weight | 40 |
| Material | iron |
- For the item in SporkHack, see staff of battle.
A staff of war is a type of weapon that appears in EvilHack and Hack'EM. It is a two-handed spell staff that uses the quarterstaff skill. The staff of war has a default material of iron and appears as an ironshod staff when unidentified.
Generation
Staves of war make up 1⁄200 (0.5%) of all weapons randomly generated on the ground, in general shops or as death drops. Used armor dealerships and antique weapons outlets can also stock staves of war.
In EvilHack, a hero that is a Druid, Healer, Infidel, Monk, Priest, or Wizard may be given a staff of war as a 'mundane' sacrifice gift.
In Hack'EM, upgrading a staff of divination successfully will produce a staff of war.
Iron golems may drop staves of war among the iron items left behind as part of their special death drop in lieu of a corpse.
Description
The staff of war deals 1d6 damage to both small and large monsters, and has a +2 to-hit bonus. A hero wielding a staff of war gains a flat 50% reduction in the spellcasting failure rate of attack spells, which is applied after all other checks besides the check for metallic body armor.
In Hack'EM, upgrading a staff of war successfully will produce a staff of divination.
Encyclopedia entry
All spell staves in EvilHack share the same encyclopedia entry:
Ged stooped and plucked a blade of wild grass that poked up
dry and frail out of the snow where the otak had lain dead.
This blade he held up, and as he spoke aloud to it in the
True Speech it lengthened, and thickened, and when he was done
he held a great staff, a wizard's staff, in his hand. No
banefire burned red along it when the black, flapping creatures
from the Court of the Terrenon swooped over him and he struck
their wings with it: it blazed only with the white magefire that
does not burn but drives away the dark.
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