Special Items

This is listings for items that are not quite considered uniques but have unique properties.

Axe	Club	Curved Blade	Exotic
Flail	Knife	Longsword	Marksmanship
Polearm	Rapier	Shortsword	Spear
Staff	Two Handed Sword	Two Handed Axe	Unarmed
Head Armours	Neck Armours	Heavy Body	Light Body
Legs	Feet	Arms	Hands
Other Magical

Axe

Hooked axe

Grants extra hits for your offhand weapon when wielded in main hand if you are fighting things that have weapons and/or shields. "You hook your opponent's weapon/shield with your axe, pull it aside and land a blow with your off-hand!" From Shieldhand Clan.

Butterfly wing axe

Chance of two hits in a round. Doesn't stack when dual, though. Works well as offhand weapon in combination with a hooked axe in main hand if you are fighting things that have weapons and/or shields. From Shieldhand Clan and Quenlar.

Club

A branding iron

Fire damage, more when heated in a fire.

An ironwood club

Psionic channelling. Identify shows "You sense that this weapon once belonged to an adventurous gnome. It was enchanted to drain mental energies."

A quadrelle mace

ID suggests extra damage vs dwarves.

A well-balanced battlehammer

Great for two weapon, more extra hits for Dwarves.

Curved Blade

An assassin's blade

Made for dual wielding (extra attacks). From Hasashiyyini Compound.

Message on wielding: "Wielding an assassin's blade in both hands you sense they are balanced for each other and you feel more sure of yourself."

Messages during combat: "You slice your blades through the air hoping your opponent will not be quick enough to recover and expose himself to an extra attack."

"Your blades slice so easily through the air that you manage an extra attack!"

"Your blades cut so easily through the air that you manage to find an opening for another hit!"

A hasashiyyini blade

Bonus for dual wielding? no messages on wielding.

A steel backsword

+1 Parry and riposte per level.

Exotic

An elemental orbs

Fire or frost damage, ignores enemy armour!

An oak boomerang

Throw at opponent to give them a black eye and -1 dexterity.

A pair of steel blade shears

made to dual, like savage halfspears but exotic. Halfshears? From Rays Sheep Farm

Flail

None?

Knife

An assassin's dagger

Made for dual wielding (extra attacks, for example). From Hasashiyyini Compound.

Message on wielding: "Wielding an assassin's dagger in both hands you sense they are balanced for each other and you feel more sure of yourself."

Messages during combat: "Your daggers slice so easily through the air that you manage to get an opening for another hit!"

"The daggers feel so light and comfortable in your hands that you almost effortlessly recover and get another chance to attack!"

"You slice your daggers through the air hoping your opponent will not be quick enough to recover and expose himself to an extra attack."

A jagged dagger

Enchanted to drain mental energies (psionic channelling). From Storm Dragons; not to be confused with A jagged dagger from Drow Outpost.

Spirit knife

Special somehow?

Silver Knife

Bonus damage to undead

Stone dagger

Bonus damage to stone golems

Longsword

Silver longsword

Bonus damage to undead.

An outstanding sword

A two-handed sword that can be wielded one-handed by characters with a strength of 16 or above.

Sword of fire

?

Vorpal Blade

Has unique damage messages - in particular, it claims "skewers" at a much lower damage level than that normally associated with a skewer. Dislikes changing ownership.

NB The description of this weapon incorrectly implies that you can change your grip to wield it as a two-handed sword.

Exquisite Rune Sword

?

Rapier

an elven foil

identify shows "You realise that this weapon was forged centuries ago during the elf-human wars. It was magically forged to be more deadly against human opponents and the fact it has survived so well down countless years attests to its power."

Shortsword

A steel butterfly sword

Made for dual wielding (extra attacks, etc). From Felgand's training camp.

Message on wielding: "You feel that these two swords will work well together."

Messages in combat: "You swing your butterfly sword with incredible accuracy!"

"You find an extra opening for an attack with your offhand butterfly sword!"

Spear

An ironwood spear

Psionic channelling. Identify shows "You sense that this weapon once belonged to an adventurous gnome. It was enchanted to drain mental energies." From Storm Dragons.

A savage halfspear

Made for dual wielding (extra attacks). From Shieldhand Clan and Quenlar

Message on wielding: "As you wield the second halfspear, something deep inside you tells you that these belong together."

Messages during combat: "You harass your opponent with a series of stabs and feints, waiting and hoping to force a defensive error."

"Your opponent is distracted by a particularly furious series of jabs from one spear, giving you an opportunity to slip the other in and land several blows!"

Staff

Rowan Staff

exa staff: This is a solid rowan staff with a small inset diamond. It is well balanced and very hard. It looks somewhat heavy.

eval staff: You carefully examine the polished diamond staff.

Moderate skill would be needed to use this weapon effectively. Compared to other weapons of similar difficulty this one looks like it would do an average amount of damage. This weapon looks quite good for parrying.

Actions: "Energize Staff" to charge it up, "Engulf Opponent" to release gust of wind, Randomly knocks down opponent... and you.

Elven Quarterstaff

More damage vs orcs. Maybe better for elves/helves/mages?

Snake Staff

go to drak: 11s17w6ses10e10s3e3s3w9swsws2w2sw

then sw, sw, sw, nw, kill priest

Or if priest is dead, smash trapdoor, go down and kill the cultists.

Poisons things, random extra damage.

A staff of protection

Your Identify spell tells you: You see a dwarven cleric pray to his god then touch this staff.

Assumed to provide protection.

Head Armours

Neutral Mask

Look at Mask:

This is a strange mask made of leather and dyed to look wooden. It appears to
be a stylised human face, sexless and without expression.

Evaluation:

"A neutral mask should provide very poor protection for your head.

This armour looks like it would be more effective against slashing attacks,
and less effective against crushing attacks."

Message on Equip:

You place the mask over your face and discover what it is to be without an
identity.

Effect:

+10 Ambushing (rogue only)

+10 Seclusion (rogue only)

+10 Stealth (rogue only)

Location:

Sometimes equipped by Adventurers in Ravel when Flaw visits.

Light Body

Some enchanted robes

+15 Cold, fire, and magic resist, Evaluates poor, better at piercing, less effective vs chopping.

Fleece-lined cloak

+10 Cold resist, Evaluates poor, slashing > crushing. From Rays Sheep Farm

Other Magical

Garnet ring

+45 cold resist, +10 magical resist

Gold amulet

Negligible protection

Whitegolden ring

?

Gold Pendant

Minor protection, from Trolls Den

Silver Pendant

+20 magical resistance, from Dangerous Flora

Powder of Sympathy (Red or Blue)

"sprinkle powder on [target]" to transfer ~10 HP (Blue) or SP (Red) to your target.