Droven helm
| [ droven helm | |
|---|---|
| Appearance | spider-shaped helm |
| Slot | helm |
| Base size | medium |
| AC | 2 |
| DR | 4 |
| Magical item? | no |
| Properties | |
| Base price | 5 zm |
| Default weight | 20 |
| Base material | shadowsteel |
- For the similar helm in EvilHack, see dark elven helm.
A droven helm is a type of helm that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. It has a default material of shadowsteel unless otherwise specified during generation, and it appears as a spider-shaped helm when unidentified.
Generation
Drow Nobles start each game with a non-cursed +1 droven helm, while drow Priests start each game with a non-cursed +0 droven helm.
Droven helms are not randomly generated, though they can be wished for or found in bones.
Several monsters can be generated with droven helms:
- Yochlols are always generated with cursed and erosion-proofed +2 droven helms regardless of their initial form.
- A'salom is always generated with a droven helm.
- Eclavdra is always generated with a blessed and erosion-proofed +0 silver droven helm.
- Drow alienists are are always generated with cursed and erosion-proofed +0 droven helms.
- Mother, the female Drow Noble quest leader, is always generated with a blessed and erosion-proofed +0 silver droven helm.
- The sisters that act as the female Drow Noble quest guardians are always generated with droven helms.
- Stjarna-alfr, hedrow blademasters, drow matrons, and drow matron-mothers are always generated with droven helms.
- Myrkalfar matrons are always generated with non-cursed +8 black plastic droven helms.
- Shadowsmiths are always generated with erosion-proofed shadowsteel droven helms.
- Deminymphs that are aligned with drow houses and given priest kits have a 3⁄4 chance of generating with a droven helm that has an enchantment ranging from +1 to +3.
- Giant spiders and cave lizards have a 1⁄20 chance of generating with droven helms fitted to their body shape, while large cave lizards have a 11⁄100 chance of generating with fitted droven helms.
- Dokkalfar eternal matriarchs created in the dungeon or outside the future (i.e. the Anachrononaut or Android quests) are always generated with blessed and erosion-proofed +5 black mithril droven helms.
- The Avatar of Lolth is always generated with a blessed and erosion-proofed +5 glass droven helm.
- Driders and sprow generated on the home level of any drow-related quest other than the Drow Healer quest are created with cursed and erosion-proofed +3 droven helms.
Description
While worn, a droven helm grants 2 base AC and 4 base DR, and wearing or removing a droven helm takes one action.
As shadowsteel armor, a droven helm may gradually erode during each turn that the wearer spends in lit squares until it is destroyed, with the chance of erosion being significantly reduced if they have a cloak that grants MC3—erosion from light will not occur if the wearer has invisibility, and an erosion-proofed droven helm will gradually self-repair any evaporation from light while the wearer is not invisible and remains in an unlit square.
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