Death (ego): Difference between revisions

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Version 0.34: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

It empowers the wearer's necromancy spells and improves their success rate, but imposes a health cost for other magic.

The death ego can be found on heavy body armour (scale mail or heavier). It provides a spell enhancer to Necromancy and halves the raw failure rate of Necromancy spells, but causes non-Necromancy spells to cost HP equal to their MP cost. It is evil and hated by the good gods.

The failure rate modifier is equivalent to the boost going from 0 to 5 levels of wizardry. This is not considered wizardry, but stacks independently with wizardry.

History

This ego was added in 0.34.

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 {{flavour|It empowers the wearer's necromancy spells and improves their success rate, but imposes a health cost for other magic.}}
-The '''death ego''' can be found on heavy [[body armour]] ([[scale mail]] or heavier). It provides a [[spell enhancer]] to [[Necromancy]] and halves the [[Spell Success#Modifiers|raw failure rate]] of [[Necromancy]] spells, but causes non-Necromancy spells to cost HP equal to their MP cost.
+The '''death ego''' can be found on heavy [[body armour]] ([[scale mail]] or heavier). It provides a [[spell enhancer]] to [[Necromancy]] and halves the [[Spell Success#Modifiers|raw failure rate]] of [[Necromancy]] spells, but causes non-Necromancy spells to cost HP equal to their MP cost. It is [[evil]] and hated by the [[good god]]s.
-The failure rate modifier is roughly equivalent to 5 levels of [[wizardry]]. This is not considered wizardry but stacks independently with wizardry.
+The failure rate modifier is equivalent to the boost going from 0  to 5 levels of [[wizardry]]. This is not considered wizardry, but stacks independently with wizardry.
 ==History==
 *This ego was added in [[0.34]].