Lord (monster attribute)

A lord is a type of monster in NetHack that is considered to have a position of authority above "mundane" monsters of their type or class, and is designated by the M2_LORD monster flag (and the is_lord() macro that queries it).

Description

A monster lord has the following traits:

• They gain a +1 multishot bonus when throwing or shooting projectiles.
• When generating monster starting inventory, if a lord has a weapon attack and no special rules for their species, they are more likely to receive one of the default weapon sets (¹⁄₂, versus ⁵⁄₁₂ for normal monsters).
• An angelic being that is a lord and generates with a weapon or shield will always generate with a shield of reflection, and its weapon will always be upgraded into Sunsword or Demonbane with an equal probability of each, assuming neither artifact has been created in that game. This currently only applies to Archons in practice.
• Demon summoning by performing same-race sacrifice will always summon a demon lord if possible (i.e. Juiblex or Yeenoghu), falling back to a normal major demon if a demon lord cannot be generated.

List of monsters

The following monsters are lords:

• g winged gargoyle
• h dwarf lord
• k kobold lord
• A ki-rin
• A Archon
• G gnome lord
• O ogre lord
• V vampire lord
• V vampire mage (deferred)
• @ elf-lord
• @ aligned priest
• & Juiblex
• & Yeenoghu

Variants

GruntHack

In GruntHack, lords and ladies are used to create monster lords via racial monster templates.

dNetHack

In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, monster lords are designated by the MG_LORD monster flag.

Slave to Armok is a lawful artifact dwarvish mattock that grants +1d5 to-hit and deals double damage against monster lords.