Rondel dagger
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| Name | rondel dagger |
| Appearance | rondel dagger |
| Damage vs. small | 1d6 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d3 |
| Damage type | piercing |
| To-hit bonus | +2 |
| Weapon skill | dagger |
| Primary attribute | strength |
| Magical item? | no |
| Properties | (none) |
| Base size | small |
| Base price | 4 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Default weight | 10 |
| Base material | iron |
A rondel dagger is a type of dagger that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack, notnotdNetHack. It is a small piercing weapon that has a base-material of iron. At Skilled and Expert skill, it gains the quick, penetrate armor, second and focus fire expert traits.
Carnwennan is a knight-favoring artifact rondel dagger, that can be named by a hero that started the game as lawful.
Generation
Rondel daggers make up 1⁄500 of all randomly generated weapons.
3 rondel daggers are randomly placed on the Knight quest.
Origin
From the old french "rondeu". A type of long thrusting dagger designed primarily to pierce through chain-mail links and unarmored gaps in armor. Often seen as a single-edged triangular blade, wide at the base and tapering to a fine point. The name was derived from the circular disks used in the guard and pommel, designed to fit closely in the hand when gripped to prevent the hand from sliping while puncturing armor.
Encyclopedia
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
[ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ]
