Short sword (skill)
The short sword is a weapon skill that appears in NetHack.[1]
Available roles
The following roles can reach the listed skill levels in short swords:
| Short sword | |
|---|---|
| Max | Role |
| Basic | |
| Skilled | |
| Expert | |
List of weapons
The following weapons use the short sword skill:
There are no artifacts that use the short sword skill.
Description
All short swords weigh 30 aum and have a base price of 10 zorkmids.
History
The short sword skill is introduced with many other weapon skills in NetHack 3.2.0.
Variants
SLASH'EM
SLASH'EM adds the silver short sword and dark elven short sword as weapons that use the short sword skill. All short sword weapons can be poisoned.
Four artifact weapons use the short sword skill:
- Quick Blade (elven short sword)
- Luckblade (short sword)
- Sword of Balance (silver short sword)
- Doomblade (orcish short sword)
SporkHack
SporkHack adds the silver short sword as a weapon that uses the short sword skill.
dNetHack
dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack add several weapons that use the short sword skill, including making a separate weapon out of the wakizashi:
- droven short sword
- church shortsword
- mirrorblade
- khopesh
- wakizashi
- blade of mercy (and blade of grace)
- hunter's shortsword
- vibroblade
- force blade
All short sword-skill weapons can be poisoned by dipping them in the appropriated potion.
Enki is a spirit that grants skill in short swords while bound.
There are some artifacts that use the short sword skill:
- Luck Blade (chaotic, Convict-favoring short sword)
- Spineseeker (chaotic short sword)
- Lolth's Fang (intelligent, drow-favoring silvered droven short sword)
- Avarice (lawful, intelligent large-sized short sword)
- Sunsword is a silvered golden long sword that uses (and trains) the higher of the two between the character's short sword and long sword skills.
- Fire Brand and Frost Brand can be generated, wished for or gifted in short sword form, and can be reshaped into a short sword weapon using a forge or fountain (respectively)—a lawful incantifier Kensei hero can also reshape either artifact into any weapon that uses the short sword skill.
xNetHack
In xNetHack, Fire Brand and Frost Brand have their base item types changed to short swords.
SpliceHack
SpliceHack adds the gladius as a weapon that uses the short sword skill.
EvilHack
EvilHack adds the dark elven short sword as a weapon that uses the short sword skill, which is significantly different from its implementation in SLASH'EM. Fire Brand and Frost Brand are changed to steel short swords, somewhat similar to xNetHack.
SlashTHEM
In SlashTHEM, in addition to SLASH'EM details, five other artifacts use the short sword skill:
- Clarent (short sword)
- Gladius (short sword)
- Heartseeker (short sword)
- Dirge (short sword)
- Slow Blade (orcish short sword)
Hack'EM
Hack'EM adds the gladius from SpliceHack as a weapon that uses the short sword skill, and retains the artifacts from SLASH'EM that use the skill.
