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)
Fast
Fire resistance
Freedom
Invisible
Jump
Life saved
Light (with a radius of 2, 3, or 4)
Magic drained
Missing a finger
Noisy
Non-regeneratable
Poison resistance
Polymorph
Position fixed
Reflective
Regeneration
Search
See invisible
Shock resistance
Sleep resistance
Speed
Stoning resistance
Telepathic
Teleport
Teleport control
Unchanging
Vulnerable to Acid
Vulnerable to Cold
Vulnerable to Fire
Vulnerable to Physical Attacks
Walk on Water
Warning

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
Froody
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
Bejeweled Staff
Gnarly Staff
Iron-shod Staff
Wooden Staff

Identified Forms

Staff of Bolts

Staff of Death

Staff of Destruction

Staff of Healing

Utility Staff