Add catch-all database entry for the polearms

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Pasi Kallinen
2018-03-03 16:15:12 +02:00
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2 changed files with 31 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -3183,12 +3183,12 @@ mars
martial arts
unarmed combat
bare*handed combat
"What else can we do? None of this is fast enough." "It will have
to be." He stood up, a tall, broad wall of a man. "Why don't you
ask around, see if anyone in the neighborhoods knows anything
about martial arts. You need more than a book or two to learn
good dependable unarmed combat."
[ Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler ]
"What else can we do? None of this is fast enough." "It will have
to be." He stood up, a tall, broad wall of a man. "Why don't you
ask around, see if anyone in the neighborhoods knows anything
about martial arts. You need more than a book or two to learn
good dependable unarmed combat."
[ Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler ]
master assassin
He strolled down the stairs, followed by a number of assassins.
When he was directly in front of Ymor he said: "I've come for
@@ -3943,6 +3943,30 @@ user
Might just kill you.
[ It's a Jungle Out There, by Randy Newman ]
# [ theme song from "Monk" ]
polearm
* polearm
partisan
ranseur
spetum
glaive
halberd
bardiche
angled poleaxe
long poleaxe
voulge
pole cleaver
fauchard
pole sickle
guisarme
bill-guisarme
lucern hammer
bec de corbin
Many of the weapons of the Middle Ages were poled or long-shafted
arms. Unlike the ancient spear or javelin, however, they were not
intended to be thrown. Some were devices with simple single- or
double-edged blades and nothing more, while others combined
the pick, spear, and hammer or axe all in one weapon.
[ Heraldry and Armor of the Middle Ages, by Marvin H. Pakula ]
polymorph trap
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams,
he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous

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@@ -414,6 +414,7 @@ surviving a gas spore's explosion would leave that explosion as a stale reason
for death which might show up strangely ("crushed to death by a gas
spore's explosion" when killed by an opening drawbridge)
add database entry for "martial arts"
add catch-all database entry for the polearms
starting inventory for rogues specified +9 lock pick, where +/-N is meaningless
fix pile mark when picking up all-but-one items while invisible
improve config file error reporting