Samurai/dNetHack

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In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, the Samurai is one of the roles from NetHack that is available to the hero.

Samurai can be humans, clockwork automata, half-dragons, or yuki-onna, and are always lawful.

Starting equipment

Each Samurai starts with the following equipment, depending on their gender:

Yuki-onna Samurai are given human masks made of mithril rather than iron.

Samurai start with knowledge of all non-magical weapons and armor.

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:

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
Skilled
Expert
Master

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

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 either wearing a shield or two-weaponing.

Samurai that use both hands to wield a weapon using the long sword or two-handed sword skill have their to-hit and damage bonuses from that skill doubled, if they perform an attack in the same direction or the opposite direction from their previous attack.

Samurai can perform a "kiai shout" that adds morale to pets and allied monsters equal to the hero's rank plus a bonus equal to 1d(CHA - 13), i.e. +1d5 for 18 charisma and +1d12 for 25 charisma), while also making noise and temporarily granting the aggravate monster intrinsic. This uses the same free action allotted to the hero as e.g., applying a stethoscope does.

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 is expanded from NetHack and can be disabled via options. The Japanese names are divided into 2 lists, which are enabled by the options role_obj_names (enabled by default) and obscure_role_obj_names (disabled by default). All of the items enabled by the former option are also enabled by the latter, but some of them have different names. The naginata, nunchaku, and wakizashi are made into distinct items, rather than simply being Japanese names for existing items.

Both lists of renamed items are presented for easy lookup below, with the items alphabetized by Japanese name (ignoring English prefixes)—the "obscure" names shown in bold override the common name if both are enabled:

Enabled by both options
Japanese English
bo-shuriken dart
dou-maru splint mail
gunyoki food ration
jingasa war hat
kabuto helmet
kote of fumbling gauntlets of fumbling
kote of power gauntlets of power
koto wooden harp
kunai dagger
osaku lock pick
potion of sake potion of booze
shito knife
hira-shuriken shuriken
sugegasa sedge hat
yugake leather gloves
Only enabled by role_obj_names
Japanese English
bo staff quarterstaff
tanko plate mail
crystal tanko crystal plate mail
Only enabled by obscure_role_obj_names
Japanese English
bisento halberd
bo quarterstaff
chokuto long sword
dai tsuchi war hammer
kamayari guisarme
jo club
jodai no katchu archaic plate mail
magari yari trident
ninja-to broadsword
no-dachi two-handed sword
ono battle axe
o-yoroi plate mail
jade o-yoroi crystal plate mail
yari spear
uma-yari lance
dwarvish zaghnal dwarvish mattock

Rank titles

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

  • XL 1-2: Hatamoto
  • XL 3-5: Ronin
  • XL 6-9: Ninja/Kunoichi
  • XL 10-13: Joshu
  • XL 14-17: Ryoshu
  • XL 18-21: Kokushu
  • XL 22-25: Daimyo
  • XL 26-29: Kuge
  • XL 30: Shogun

Gods

Main article: Religion

The Samurai pantheon is based on the pantheon of Japanese mythology. The role's first sacrifice gift is Kiku-ichimonji for men and Jinja Naginata for women.

Quest

The Samurai's quest sees them fighting Ashikaga Takauji for the Tsurugi of Muramasa, an artifact tsurugi. The Tsurugi of Muramasa grants automatic searching and acts as a luckstone while carried, and while wielded it is bloodthirsty and deals double damage against all monsters, with a 110 chance (10%) of bisection. Both bloodthirsty weapons and bisection function much differently from vanilla NetHack.

Strategy

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Samurai now get an artifact yumi as a crowning gift, Yoichi no yumi. It grants +1d20 to hit, 2x damage to fired ya, and can be #invoked to create ya.

Snickersnee is relegated to a nameable artifact, which can be named by Tourists who are either at least level 19 or have completed their quest. It cannot be named by Samurai, but it still favors Samurai. It's now an intelligent knife. Like Vorpal Blade, it has a chance of beheading targets, and doubled and exploding base dice with +1 damage per dice: 2d5+2 versus small and 2d3+2 versus large, and each explosion adds 1d5+1/1d3+1 damage. It also has +1d3 to hit and +1d10 bonus damage. Both Tourists and Samurai can twoweapon Snickersnee in the off-hand, but will suffer a -20 to-hit penalty unless they are Skilled in twoweapon.

Lastly, the Kusanagi no Tsurugi can be named by Samurai at level 22, but only used as a weapon at 30. It's an intelligent long sword with +1d20 to hit and +1d12 to damage. In addition, it may behead targets and will instantly kill elementals. It grants energy regeneration while wielded, and searching and luck while carried.