From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS)
Subject: Re: Wanted: spoilers about 'cleaver'
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:00:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.193440.18033@polari>, gregs@polari.online.com writes:
|> jwk3@po.CWRU.Edu (John W. Kale) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >In a previous article, donm@cs.UAlberta.CA (Don Murray) says:
|> 
|> >>However, I have also run into an axe named 'Cleaver' a lot more often.
|> >>I am always disappointed when I 'identify' these artifacts and find they
|> >>are +0, so I figure they must have some other special uses.
|> >>
|> >>What does it do?  Anybody know?  Just a lot of damage or something?
|> >>
|> 
|> >	Cleaver is just, as you say, a good axe. It does a lot
|> >of damage... for an axe. Stormbringer is far better.
|> 
|> I was curious about Cleaver too, so I looked it up in the spoiler file.
|> The spoiler file doesn't make much sense to me in this area.  Maybe
|> someone can help out...
|> 
|> Warning: I posted a whole section from the spoiler file.
|> MAJOR SPOILER - from the spoiler file - follows
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> |              |                                               |        |
|> | Name         |  Weapon type                    Special       | What   |Al
|> |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> | Cleaver      | Axe 3            | 1 |  2 |                   |        | C |
|> | Demonbane    | Long sword       | 5 | x2 |                   | demons | L |
|> | Dragonbane   | Broadsword       | 5 | x2 |                   | dragon | N |
|> | Excalibur    | Long sword       | 5 | 10 | seek, def., search|        | L |
|> | Fire brand   | Long sword       | 5 | x2 | defend, fire      |        | N |
|> | Frost brand  | Long sword       | 5 | x2 | defend, cold      |        | N |
|> | Giantslayer  | Long sword       | 5 | x2 |                   | giants | N |
|> | Grimtooth    | Orcish dagger    | 2 |  6 |                   |        | C |
|> | Mjollnir     | War hammer       | 5 | 24 | shock             |        | L |
|> | Ogresmasher  | War hammer       | 5 | x2 |                   | ogres  | L |
|> | Orcrist      | Two handed sword | 5 | x2 |                   | orcs   | L |
|> | Snickersnee  | Katana           | 0 |  8 |                   |        | L |
|> | Sunsword     | Long sword       | 5 | x2 |                   | undead | L |
|> | Sting        | Elven dagger     | 5 | x2 | warn              | orcs   | L |
|> | Stormbringer | Broadsword       | 5 |  2 | defend, drain lvl |        | C |
|> | Trollsbane   | Morning star     | 5 | x2 |                   | trolls | L |
|> | Werebane     | Long sword       | 5 | x2 |                   | weres  | L |
|> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|>                                    ^^^^^^^
|>                             This is what I don't get.
[Abilities omitted]

|> ------------------------------------- end of excerpt ----------------------
|> 
|> So what do the numbers mean?  ie:
|> 
|> | Cleaver      | Axe 3            | 1 |  2 |                   |        | C |
|> | Demonbane    | Long sword       | 5 | x2 |                   | demons | L |
|> | Dragonbane   | Broadsword       | 5 | x2 |                   | dragon | N |
|> | Excalibur    | Long sword       | 5 | 10 | seek, def., search|        | L |
|>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^
|>      		Does this mean that Demonbane and Dragonbane to double
|> 		damage to demons/dragons, and that Cleaver and Excalibur
|> 		are just +2 and +10 damage (respectively)?  And what are
|> 		the 5's for by the swords, and the 1 for Cleaver?
|> 
|> Sorry for posting the whole thing, but I'm sure lots of people could use
|> this information.  It didn't make sense to post the stats and not the
|> descriptions.  So anybody got the answers?  
|> -- 
|> Gregory Sumner                        ::
|> gregs@polari.online.com               ::               Go Dawgs! 
|> Seattle, Wa                           :: 1-0

The first column is the bonus for small/medium creatures, the second is for
large creatures.  Thus, Cleaver does +1 on small/medium and +2 on large
creatures.

Demonbane does +5 on small demons, and double damage on large.  If there is a
monster in the second to last column, then the bonuses only apply to that
group of monsters.
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