Samurai/SlashTHEM

Not to be confused with One-Eyed Sam.

In SlashTHEM, the Samurai, abbreviated as Sam, is one of the roles from NetHack that is available to the hero.

Samurai can be humans, clockwork automata or elves, and always start as lawful.

Starting equipment

Each Samurai starts with the following equipment:

• a +0 katana
• a +0 short sword
• a +0 yumi
• 26-45 ya
• +0 rustproof splint mail
• an uncursed blindfold (20% chance or ¹⁄₅)

Samurai start with knowledge of all non-magical weapons and armor, along with any applicable racial equipment.

The Samurai's default starting pet is a little dog named Hachi.

Intrinsics

Samurai gain the following intrinsic properties upon reaching the given experience levels:

• Level 1: speed
• Level 15: stealth

Attributes

The Samurai's starting attributes are distributed as follows:

Attributes	Strength	Dexterity	Constitution	Intelligence	Wisdom	Charisma	Remaining
Minimum attributes	10	10	17	8	7	6	17
Distribution percentages	30%	30%	14%	10%	8%	8%
Mean w/ standard deviation (human)	15.90±1.94	15.54±1.75	17.91±0.32	9.94±1.37	8.56±1.27	7.37±1.20

Skills

Samurai have the following skills available to them:

Samurai skills
Max	Skills
Basic	Weapons: dagger, short sword, scimitar, saber, paddle, quarterstaff, spear, javelin Combat: bare hands, riding Spells: body, musicalize
Skilled	Weapons: knife, broadsword, flail, polearms, lance Spells: protection
Expert	Weapons: short sword, long sword, two-handed sword, bow, shuriken

Samurai start with Basic skill in long swords, short swords, bows, and martial arts. They use the intelligence stat to cast spells, and their special spell is clairvoyance.

Techniques

Samurai can learn the disarm technique by reaching Skilled in any weapon, and also gain the following techniques at the listed experience levels:

Level	Technique
1	kiii

Special rules

Samurai get a +1 bonus to multishot and damage when firing ya from a yumi.

Samurai can perform a shattering blow while wielding a katana without wearing a shield.

Samurai are expected to adhere to a role-specific code of conduct, detailed in the section below.

Code of conduct

The Samurai code of conduct is designed after bushido, and those following it must behave honorably—dishonorable acts will incur an alignment record penalty and display a guilt message:

You disturb the honorable dead!

You incurred a -1 penalty to alignment record from digging up a grave.

You dishonorably attack the innocent!

You incurred a -1 penalty to alignment record from attacking peaceful or tame monster.

You dishonorably use a poisoned weapon!

incurred a -1 penalty to alignment record from attacking with a poisoned weapon.

Japanese names for items

On top of normal language-specific changes for some game dialogs while the hero is a Samurai, certain items also use Japanese names in place of their regular English names, which are further expanded from NetHack 3.4.3 and imported from NetHack-- - the new additions are listed below:

Japanese	English
bokken (previously jo)	club (actually means "wooden sword")
dai-kyu	bow
jo (reassigned from club)	baseball bat (actually means "short staff")
kaginawa	grappling hook
mizugumo	water walking boots
okonomiyaki	pancake
onigiri	doughnut
timbe	small shield

Rank titles

The status line displays one of the following ranks for the corresponding experience levels:

• XL 1-2: Ashigaru
• XL 3-5: Hatamoto
• XL 6-9: Kumigashira
• XL 10-13: Bangashira
• XL 14-17: Samurai-Daisho
• XL 18-21: Bushou
• XL 22-25: Ryoshu
• XL 26-29: Joshu
• XL 30: Kokushu

Gods

The Samurai pantheon is based on the pantheon of Japanese mythology. Their first sacrifice gift is Kiku-ichimonji.

• Lawful: Amaterasu Omikami
• Neutral: Raijin
• Chaotic: Susanowo

Quest

The Samurai's quest sees them fighting Ashikaga Takauji for the Tsurugi of Muramasa, an artifact tsurugi. The Tsurugi of Muramasa acts as a luckstone while carried, and deals +8 damage to all monsters with a ¹⁄₁₀ chance (10%) of a size-dependent effect: against medium-size or smaller monsters and any monster that is engulfing the wielder, the Tsurugi can bisect and instantly kill them upon hitting, which can include the hero if Ashikaga Takauji uses the weapon against them—against large-or-bigger monsters, the Tsurugi instead deals double damage.

Strategy

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