All ideas tagged "decapitation"

#5199

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vanilla

Potion of vorpality: consuming it grants you a short duration of a new “vorpal” intrinsic. While you are vorpal, any melee attack you make with a bladed weapon acts like Vorpal Blade in that you may decapitate a monster you hit with it.

#5068

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vanilla

Memril, a fantastic insect (so in the x class rather than the a class) which has two bite attacks, each with a chance to decapitate the target. It never generates randomly until the Wizard of Yendor starts harassing the player. It may be a valid target for summon nasties.

#5066

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vanilla

Executioner beetle: an insect whose bite has a chance of decapitating its target.

Vorpal bunny, a magenta r monster with a deadly bite: it decapitates you if your HP is at 50% or less, and bisects you otherwise. Probably a reference to the killer rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

It should probably only generate in Gehennom, or be unique and generate in a specific area or off-branch of Gehennom, or be psuedo-unique by giving it a birth limit of 1.

#4242

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EvilHack

Tortles have a Dex-based chance of avoiding getting decapitated by ducking their head back into their shell.

#3793

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vanilla

If the hero gets decapitated, they don’t die, but their head falls into their inventory. Thereafter, they are permanently blind unless wielding the head in the offhand slot.

#3677

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vanilla

A chaotic artifact axe (or battle-axe, not specified) The Executioner’s Axe: has a small chance of beheading on every successful hit like Vorpal Blade.

#3391

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EvilHack

Wielding Vorpal Blade in your offhand will never decapitate monsters; instead hits that would have decapitated will instead sever a limb, which can make the monster lose its weapon or permanently lose a claw attack.

#3233

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vanilla

Invoking Vorpal Blade gives some sort of message about its keen edge gleaming, indicating that its next hit will have a high critical ratio (perhaps 10% instead of 5%) for increased chance of decapitation.

#2762

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vanilla

New object, a metal collar you wear on your neck. Makes you immune to being decapitated by Vorpal Blade. It would probably be worn in the amulet slot.