Two-handed sword (skill)
The two-handed sword is a weapon skill that appears in NetHack.[1]
Available roles
The following roles can reach the listed skill levels in short swords:
| Two-handed sword | |
|---|---|
| Max | Role |
| Basic | |
| Skilled | |
| Expert | |
List of weapons
The two-handed sword and tsurugi use the two-handed sword skill, and both are naturally two-handed weapons. The Tsurugi of Muramasa is an artifact tsurugi that uses the skill.
Description
All weapons that use the two-handed sword skill are subject to a 3⁄2 damage bonus base on the hero's strength whenever attacking with such weapons in melee, and they have a chance of performing a shattering blow that destroys the target's weapon and may cause them to flee.[2][3]
History
The two-handed sword skill is introduced with many other weapon skills in NetHack 3.2.0.
NetHack 5.0.0 increases the hero's strength bonus for two-handed weapons via commit 60c19568.
Variants
SLASH'EM
SLASH'EM adds Deathsword, an artifact two-handed sword that is the second guaranteed sacrifice gift for Barbarians.
SporkHack
SporkHack adds Lifestealer, an artifact two-handed sword that functions similarly to Stormbringer and is wielded by Vlad the Impaler: a comment in the code indicates that the choice of base item was deliberate to try and deter players from using the artifact themselves, as two-handed weapons were still considered unpopular at the time of its addition.
UnNetHack
UnNetHack adds Thiefbane, an artifact two-handed sword carried by the black market proprietor One-eyed Sam.
dNetHack
dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack add the droven greatsword, white vibrozanbato and gold-bladed vibrozanbato as weapons that use the two-handed sword skill.
The Black Crystal increases a hero's skill cap in two-handed swords by one level while carried.
Dantalion is a spirit that grants skill in two-handed swords while bound.
Some artifacts use the two-handed sword skill:
- The Atlantean Royal Sword is a neutral artifact that favors Barbarians, and is the first guaranteed sacrifice gift for Barbarians that start with a two-handed sword.
- Sol Valtiva is a chaotic obsidian two-handed sword that favors fire giants, and is the signature weapon of Lord Surtur.
- Genocide is a lawful and large intelligent artifact that is wielded by Bael. It has +1d10 to-hit and deals +1d20 fire damage against targets without fire resistance, while dealing +6d6 fire damage to all monsters of the same race (or monster type if race does not apply) on the current level—if a monster is killed by that fire damage, a fiery explosion that deals 6d6 damage occurs centered on the monster. While the fire damage from this secondary attack does not affect the victim's inventory, the subsequent explosion can burn items in its range.
- Doomscreamer is a chaotic and intelligent artifact wielded by Graz'zt. It has +1 to-hit and deals double damage against targets without acid resistance, and grants acid resistance when wielded.
- The Sword of Onoel is a lawful and large intelligent artifact that is made of silver and grants +1d7 to-hit and +1d10 damage versus all monsters. While wielded, the Sword of Onoel grants automatic searching and blindness resistance, and acts as a light source; targets that it strikes may be blinded, gremlins are reduced to dust, and trolls are petrified.
xNetHack
In xNetHack, the Valkyrie quest artifact is Sol Valtiva, a chaotic artifact two-handed sword made of mithril that is the signature weapon of Lord Surtur.
EvilHack
EvilHack adds The Sword of Kas, an artifact two-handed sword that is wielded by Kas, and also adds Lifestealer from SporkHack.
SlashTHEM
In addition to SLASH'EM details, SlashTHEM adds two other artifact two-handed swords:
- Graywand, a neutral two-handed sword
- The Sword of Svyatogor, a lawful two-handed sword and the Warrior quest artifact
Hack'EM
Hack'EM adds Deathsword, with its implementation being very different from SLASH'EM, and also adds Lifestealer as it is implemented in EvilHack.
