Droven chain mail

For the armor in EvilHack, see dark elven chain mail.

[   droven chain mail
Appearance	crested black mail
Slot	body armor
AC	2
Special	MC2 4 DR robe-like bonus to spellcasting
Base price	1000 zm
Weight	50
Material	shadowsteel

Droven chain mail is a type of body armor that appears in dNetHack and notdNetHack. It is always made of shadowsteel, and appears as crested black mail when unidentified.

Generation

Droven chain mail is not randomly generated. Drow that start with leather armor or a cloak of magic resistance will have it replaced with droven chain mail, as well as the leather cloak that Bards spawn with. This does not affect the cloak of displacement that droven Rangers spawn with, which is droven plate mail instead.

Most hedrow monsters will spawn with droven chain mail, including hedrow wizards, hedrow master-wizards, and drow alienists. Yochlols will also spawn with droven chain mail in any form, and the various steeds spawned alongside droven hunting parties have small (¹⁄₁₀) chances to spawn with barded droven chain mail as armor.

Spidersilk is an artifact droven chain mail accessible only to male droven Priests, Rangers, Rogues, and Wizards. It is made of cloth, labeled as 'spidersilk' for flavor, and overall has 1 less AC & DR than its typical counterpart. When worn, it grants double spell damage with ray and beam spells, prevents you from being trapped in a web, and adds sleep poison to unarmed attacks (even through worn gloves).

Description

While worn, droven chain mail grants 2 base AC, 4 DR and MC2, and also confers a bonus to spellcasting equivalent to wearing a robe - this bonus stacks with the bonus from an actual worn robe. As shadowsteel armor, droven chain mail has a chance of evaporating in lit squares, with the chance reduced if the wearer has MC3 or invisibility - erodeproofed droven chain mail will repair partial evaporation while the wearer remains in an unlit square.

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