Shadow ogre (SLASH'EM)
O shadow ogre 
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| Difficulty | 13 |
| Attacks |
Weapon 3d5 physical, touch 3d5 drain life |
| Base level | 10 |
| Base experience | 269 |
| Speed | 14 |
| Base AC | 0 |
| Base MR | 60 |
| Alignment | -7 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 0 (Not randomly generated) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 1700 |
| Nutritional value | 750 |
| Size | Large |
| Resistances | None |
| Resistances conveyed | None |
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A shadow ogre:
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| Reference | SLASH'EM_0.0.7E7F2/monst.c#line2931 |
A shadow ogre, O, is a type of monster that appears in SLASH'EM and SlashTHEM. The shadow ogre is a type of ogre that is even stronger than the ogre king, and is similarly treated as an overlord to his kind. Tame shadow ogres may turn traitor.
A shadow ogre has a weapon attack and a life draining touch attack. Shadow ogres require a +1 weapon or better to hit and implicitly hit as +1 weapons.
Generation
Shadow ogres are not randomly generated, though they are a valid form for polymorph, are flagged to appear only in Gehennom and may be generated as peaceful towards chaotic heroes—this is most likely due to an oversight, since they are not flagged as G_NOGEN and lack a frequency rating altogether (a trait shared with the ogre mage).[1]
Grund's Stronghold has a 1⁄2 chance of generating a shadow ogre within the room containing the throne at level creation.
A shadow ogre always generates with some gold and a weapon, which has a 1⁄12 chance of being a battle-axe and will otherwise be a club, and is eligible for offensive, defensive and miscellaneous items.[2] As shadow ogres are overlords to their kind, any weapons they generate with will be at least +1.
Strategy
Shadow ogres can be fairly dangerous, since they move faster than an unhasted and unburdened hero and have a base AC of 0, and on top of their high weapon damage they can also devastate the hero with their life-draining touch, unless they possess drain resistance or at least MC3. Thankfully, shadow ogres lack any other defenses beyond a formidable MR score of 60, and a hero can use attack wands and poisoned projectiles to bring down an approaching shadow ogre before it can get within melee range, or even use a wand of death.
