Abilities

Skill 1 Power

Gives a bonus of +1 damage sides to your melee attacks, but makes it harder to score critical hits (increasing the base required by 1).

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 2 Finesse

Lowers the base number needed to get critical hits with melee from 7 to 5.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 3 Knock Back

You have a chance to knock enemies back a square in melee depending upon your effective strength and your opponent's constitution.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves, Shield

Skill 4 Polearm Mastery

Gives you +2 to attack with polearms (spears & glaives) and lets you set them to receive free attacks on advancing enemies when you wait (z or 5).

Applies to: Gloves

Skill 5 Charge

When you attack an opponent immediately after moving towards it, your attack is calculated as if you had 3 points more strength and dexterity.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Boots, Shield

Skill 6 Follow-Through

Allows you to continue your attack if you kill an opponent, moving onto the next adjacent enemy.

Requires: Melee: Power; Melee: Finesse

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon

Skill 7 Impale

When using a polearm or greatsword you can strike through or past opponents to attack an opponent behind.

Requires: Melee: Power; Melee: Polearm Mastery

Applies to: Edged weapon, Polearm, Gloves

Skill 8 Subtlety

Lowers the base number needed to get critical hits with melee by 2 points, when you are using a one handed weapon with the other hand free.

Requires: Melee: Finesse

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 9 Whirlwind Attack

Whenever you attack an enemy, you get a free attack on all other enemies adjacent to you. The original attack must be a regular, flanking or controlled retreat attack.

Requires: Melee: Polearm Mastery; Melee: Follow-Through

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 10 Zone of Control

You get a free attack whenever an opponent moves between two squares which are adjacent to you.

Requires: Melee: Finesse; Melee: Polearm Mastery

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 11 Smite

When using a two-handed weapon, the first main attack you make on your turn rolls the maximum possible damage to all opponents it hits. If you make such an attack, you lose a turn to recover.

Requires: Melee: Knock Back; Melee: Charge

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon

Skill 12 Two Weapon Fighting

Allows you to wield a one-handed weapon in your off-hand for an extra attack (calculated as if you had 3 points less strength and dexterity).

Requires: Melee: Finesse; Evasion: Parry

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 13 Rapid Attack

Grants you an extra melee attack, but your attacks are calculated as if you had 3 points less strength and dexterity.

Requires: Melee: Subtlety; Stealth: Opportunist

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 20 Strength

You gain a point of strength.

Skill 2 Rout

Firing at fleeing monsters is calculated as if you had 5 points more dexterity.

Applies to: Bow

Skill 3 Fletchery

Allows you to use the '-' command to give ordinary arrows a +3 bonus. Takes one turn for each arrow.

Applies to: Gloves, Ring

Skill 4 Point Blank Archery

The monster you are firing at cannot get an attack of opportunity.

Applies to: Bow, Gloves

Skill 5 Puncture

Whenever an enemy's armour roll would fully block your archery damage roll, you deal the enemy a flat five damage instead.

Applies to: Bow, Gloves, Ring

Skill 6 Ambush

Grants an additional critical damage die whenever you hit an unwary or sleeping monster with an arrow.

Applies to: Bow, Gloves, Cloak

Skill 7 Versatility

If you have more skill points in archery than in melee, you gain a bonus to melee of half the difference between them.

Applies to: Bow, Gloves

Skill 8 Crippling Shot

Your critical hits sometimes temporarily slow monsters (depending on the level of critical and the monster's Will).

Requires: Archery: Puncture; Archery: Ambush

Applies to: Bow

Skill 9 Deadly Hail

Arrows fired the turn after killing an enemy with an arrow do twice their normal damage.

Requires: Archery: Rout; Archery: Puncture

Applies to: Bow, Gloves

Skill 10 Dexterity

You gain a point of dexterity.

Skill 2 Dodging

Gives you a +3 bonus to evasion if you moved on your last turn.

Applies to: Boots, Soft armour, Cloak, Ring

Skill 3 Blocking

Doubles the protection roll for your shield against all attacks if you did not move on your last turn.

Applies to: Shield

Skill 4 Parry

Doubles the evasion bonus granted by your primary melee weapon.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 5 Crowd Fighting

Halves the bonus opponents get for surrounding you.

Applies to: Gloves, Mail, Boots, Helm

Skill 6 Leaping

You can leap over a chasm or trap if you moved towards it the previous turn. (Roosts and webs are not leapable).

Applies to: Boots, Blunt weapon

Skill 7 Sprinting

You start moving more quickly if you run four or more squares in roughly the same direction.

Requires: Evasion: Dodging; Evasion: Leaping

Applies to: Boots

Skill 8 Flanking

Gives you a free attack on an opponent if you step from a square which is adjacent to it, to another square which is adjacent to it.

Applies to: Boots, Soft armour

Skill 9 Heavy Armour Use

Gives you [1dX] protection, where X is your total armour weight divided by 15 lbs.

Requires: Evasion: Blocking; Evasion: Crowd Fighting

Applies to: Mail, Shield

Skill 10 Riposte

It gives you a free attack on an opponent who misses you by at least 10 + the weight of your weapon (only once per round).

Requires: Evasion: Parry

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 11 Controlled Retreat

Gives you a free attack on an opponent when you step away from it, but only if you did not move the previous round.

Requires: Evasion: Dodging; Evasion: Blocking

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Shield, Boots

Skill 20 Dexterity

You gain a point of dexterity.

Skill 3 Disguise

Halves any bonuses that awake but unwary enemies have to notice you due to you being in their line of sight.

Applies to: Boots, Cloak, Soft armour, Ring

Skill 4 Assassination

Gives you a melee bonus against non-alert creatures equal to your stealth score.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 5 Cruel Blow

Your critical hits sometimes confuse monsters with the pain (depending on the level of critical and the monster's Will).

Requires: Stealth: Assassination

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 6 Exchange Places

Allows you to use the 'X' command to exchange places with an adjacent enemy (who gets a free attack on you as you pass).

Requires: Stealth: Disguise; Evasion: Crowd Fighting

Applies to: Boots, Soft armour, Amulet

Skill 7 Opportunist

You get a free attack whenever an adjacent opponent moves away from you.

Requires: Stealth: Assassination; Melee: Follow-Through

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Gloves

Skill 8 Vanish

Gives a +10 stealth bonus towards making enemies become unwary when you are out of their line of sight.

Requires: Stealth: Disguise

Applies to: Boots, Cloak, Soft armour, Ring

Skill 11 Dexterity

You gain a point of dexterity.

Requires: Stealth: Disguise; Stealth: Assassination

Skill 1 Quick Study

Allows you to take advanced abilities when you don't have the prerequisite abilities.

Applies to: Amulet

Skill 2 Focused attack

Gives you a bonus of half your Perception score to your attacks if you passed the previous turn.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Helm, Bow

Skill 3 Keen Senses

Allows you to see enemies who are just beyond the edge of a pool of light, and gives a +5 bonus to spot 'invisible' creatures.

Applies to: Helm, Light, Amulet

Skill 4 Concentration

Gives you a +1 bonus to attack for every consecutive round spent attacking the same enemy (to a maximum of Perception/2).

Applies to: Helm, Soft armour, Amulet

Skill 5 Alchemy

Lets you determine the purpose of all herbs and potions you encounter, as well as staves and horns.

Applies to: Helm, Ring

Skill 6 Bane

You receive a bonus to all skill rolls against a selected category of enemy. The bonus increases as you kill more.

Skill 7 Outwit

Whenever you receive a critical hit, make a Perception roll against the attacker's Perception. If you succeed, negate all critical damage.

Applies to: Helm, Light, Amulet

Skill 8 Listen

Gives you a chance each turn to detect enemies that you cannot see (including around corners and through doors).

Requires: Perception: Keen Senses

Applies to: Helm

Skill 9 Master Hunter

Gives you an attack bonus of +1 for each time you have killed an opponent of the same type (up to a maximum of Perception/2).

Requires: Perception: Concentration; Perception: Bane

Applies to: Helm, Boots, Bow

Skill 10 Grace

You gain a point of grace.

Skill 1 Curse Breaking

Allows you to break the curses on items when you attempt to take them off.

Applies to: Amulet, Helm, Ring, Shield

Skill 2 Channeling

You automatically recognise all staves and horns and can use them twice as efficiently.

Applies to: Helm, Ring

Skill 3 Strength in Adversity

Gives you bonuses to Strength, Dexterity and Grace when seriously injured: +1 when less than or equal to 50% health, +3 when 25%.

Applies to: Helm, Soft armour, Mail, Amulet, Light

Skill 4 Formidable

Slaying enemies in melee scares all other enemies who see it. Enemies do not gain morale based on your injuries.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon, Helm, Shield

Skill 5 Indomitable

Gives you resistance to fear, confusion, stunning, and hallucination. Slows hunger to one third the normal rate.

Applies to: Amulet, Helm, Mail

Skill 5 Inner Light

Increases the intensity of light within your light radius by 2 points (without increasing the radius).

Applies to: Helm, Light, Soft armour

Skill 6 Oath

Swear a great oath, and be rewarded for keeping it.

Skill 7 Poison Resistance

Gives you resistance to poison.

Skill 8 Vengeance

When you are damaged in melee by an enemy, an additional damage die is added to your next successful strike. This effect does not stack.

Requires: Will: Strength in Adversity

Applies to: Amulet, Helm

Skill 9 Majesty

Lowers monster morale by half the difference between your Will and theirs.

Requires: Will: Curse Breaking; Will: Inner Light

Applies to: Helm, Soft armour, Amulet

Skill 12 Constitution

You gain a point of constitution.

Skill 2 Weaponsmith

Allows you to create weapons.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Gloves

Skill 3 Armoursmith

Allows you to create armour.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Gloves

Skill 4 Jeweller

Allows you to create rings, amulets, horns and light sources and identify rings, amulets, horns and light sources you encounter.

Applies to: Gloves

Skill 5 Enchantment

Allows you to create {special} items and determine what enchantments exist on items you encounter.

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Gloves

Skill 6 Expertise

Reduces the time taken to forge an item by half and negates all experience and stat costs.

Requires: Smithing: Enchantment

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Gloves

Skill 7 Artifice

Allows you to create highly customised artifacts.

Requires: Smithing: Jeweller; Smithing: Enchantment

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Gloves

Skill 8 Masterpiece

Allows you to create items that are more difficult than usual. Doing so drains your smithing skill for each excess point.

Requires: Smithing: Enchantment

Applies to: Blunt weapon, Gloves

Skill 10 Grace

You gain a point of grace.

Skill 1 Song of Challenge

Causes weak-willed foes to attack aggressively without regard to strategy. Enemies with ranged weapons will close to melee range.

Applies to: Helm, Blunt weapon, Polearm, Edged weapon

Skill 1 Song of Elbereth

Causes fear in nearby servants of Morgoth.

Applies to: Amulet, Cloak, Light

Skill 2 Song of Delvings

Slowly reveals the terrain around you, working out from already known areas.

Applies to: Cloak, Digging tool

Skill 2 Song of Freedom

Discovers and overcomes nearby doors, traps, and rubble. Grants you freedom of movement.

Applies to: Amulet, Cloak, Blunt weapon

Skill 3 Song of Silence

Dampens all nearby sounds, making it harder for opponents to hear you and each other.

Applies to: Amulet, Cloak, Boots

Skill 3 Song of Staunching

Stops all bleeding and speeds healing of your wounds.

Applies to: Amulet, Cloak, Ring

Skill 4 Song of Thresholds

Doors you close while singing this song are warded against your enemies.

Requires: Song: Song of Elbereth; Song: Song of Delvings

Applies to: Amulet, Cloak

Skill 5 Song of the Trees

Increases your light level by 1 point per 5 points of Song.

Requires: Song: Song of Elbereth; Song: Song of Staunching

Applies to: Amulet, Cloak, Light

Skill 6 Song of Slaying

Critical hits in melee kill enemies outright instead of doing damage if the enemy has health less than or equal to twice your Song score.

Requires: Song: Song of Challenge; Song: Song of Freedom

Applies to: Polearm, Edged weapon

Skill 7 Song of Staying

Gives you a bonus to Will equal to half your Song score and [2d2] protection.

Requires: Song: Song of Challenge; Song: Song of Staunching

Applies to: Helm, Shield, Cloak, Ring

Skill 8 Song of Lorien

Gradually puts nearby opponents to sleep.

Requires: Song: Song of Silence; Song: Song of Delvings

Applies to: Amulet, Cloak

Skill 10 Song of Mastery

Occasionally prevents nearby opponents from moving or acting.

Requires: Song: Song of Freedom; Song: Song of Silence

Applies to: Amulet, Cloak

Skill 11 Woven Themes

Allows you to add a 'minor theme' to your song. This means you can have the effect of a second song, but at half your normal Song score.

Applies to: Amulet, Cloak

Skill 12 Grace

You gain a point of grace.