Lance (skill)
The lance is a weapon skill that appears in NetHack.[1]
Available roles
The following roles can reach the listed skill levels in lances:
| Lance | |
|---|---|
| Max | Role |
| Basic | |
| Skilled | |
| Expert | |
List of weapons
The lance is the only weapon to use the lance skill.
There are no artifact lances.
Description
The range at which a hero or monster can pound with a lance varies with their skill level in lances—pounding functions as it does for polearms, and unlike polearms Expert-level pounding is possible for lances.
History
The lance skill is introduced with many other weapon skills in NetHack 3.2.0.
Variants
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, two of the five added roles can train their skill in lances:
| Lances | |
|---|---|
| Max | Role |
| Basic | |
| Skilled | |
dNetHack
dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack add the elven lance, droven lance, white vibrospear, gold-bladed vibrospear, and force pike as weapons that use the lance skill.
Berith is a spirit that grants skill in lances while bound.
Some artifacts make use of the lance skill:
- Dragonlance (unaligned lance)
- Rhongomyniad (lawful Knight-favoring lance; unlocks lance skill when gifted)
- The Lance of Uriel (lawful, large and intelligent silver lance)
- The Rod of Lordly Might, The Rod of the Elvish Lords and The Sceptre of Lolth can be invoked to take on the form of an appropriate lance weapon.
FIQHack
In FIQHack, Dragonbane has its base item changed from a broadsword to a lance.
SpliceHack
SpliceHack adds Bradamante's Fury, a neutral artifact lance that has +1d5 to-hit and +1d10 damage bonuses versus all monsters. It has a 1⁄10 chance of stunning a monster on each hit, and instantly dismounts any mounted monsters it hits and stuns them.
Hack'EM
Hack'EM adds Bradamante's Fury from SpliceHack, improving the damage bonus to +1d12 and changing its alignment to lawful to better reflect the source material.
