POWDER/Other

Artifacts

On occasion, an item will be found that is already named and has special properties. These artifact items add to a player's score at the end of the game.

Special Effects

Artifacts can be generated with a variety of special effects/attributes, including:

Acid resistance
Aflame
Bleeding
Breathless
Cold resistance
Extra melee damage (various types)
- on armor, these fall under Improvised attacks
Extra thrown damage (various types)
Fire resistance
Light (with a radius; 3 appears typical if not universal)
Reflection
Regeneration
Speed
Search
Telepathy
Teleport control
Unchanging
Vulnerability to Physical Attacks
Vulnerability to Cold
Vulnerability to Fire
Warning
Water-walking

Names

Artifact names are generated by randomly linking 2 or 3 of the following parts (among others - list is not currently exhaustive):

Amy
Bar
Baz
Brask
Frost
Klay
Oma
Orc
Relat
Slug
Shock
Smash
Tree
Trey
Upa
Wang
Were
Whiz
Wor
Yyz
Zub

Special Staffs

There are a few staffs that may be found in the depths of the cavernous passages , as well. These staffs allow the user to cast a wide variety of spells - providing of course that you have the mana available.

Basic Forms

Crook
Iron-shod Staff

Identified Forms

Utility Staff

Light
Knock
Possess
Preserve
Teleport
Detect Curse
Direct Wind
Petrify