Star Wars Lightsaber Unrand

[MainiacJoe]

Okay, this is cheesy, but here's my best attempt at coming up with a Star Wars lightsaber in Crawl.

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The +5 demon blade "Sith Lightsaber" {slice, cleave}
"A powerful energy weapon from a galaxy far, far away.  It can effortlessly cut through almost anything."


The flavor gimmicks:

1. Cleaving on a Long Blade.
2. Vorpal because a lightsaber ought not be stopped by any of Crawl's elemental resistances.

I want this to be an endgame quality weapon but not no-brainer broken. I don't know what sort of slaying value best accomplishes that, so I guessed +5 since demon blade base stats are already quite a bit better than a broad axe's. For a while I entertained adding an accuracy malus to represent needing high skill to use the weapon effectively, but took that out when I realized that {Acc--} would also affect targeted spells cast while wielding it, not at all what I want.

[Sar]

You can enchant a broad axe to +9 though...

[MainiacJoe]

Yeah. I really don't have the experience to know what a good slaying on this thing would be. Would +9 on this be too much? Too little? I don't know.

[Sar]

Just make it ignore AC and possibly SH.

[MainiacJoe]

Yeah, that's flavorful. So what slaying would you put on {cleave,ignore AC}?

[Sar]

+8 because that's what the other two demon blade unrandarts do

well, except katana isn't a demon blade and Leech is... wait, Leech is now +8?

[xentronium]

+4 Demon blade "Infringer" {speed, cleave, reflect, SH+5}

[duvessa]

if god ever existed, he is dead now

[Sar]

he

how very sexist of you

[MainiacJoe]

I know this has zero chance of ever making it into the game. That's why I CYC'd it. I thought it was fun to investigate a cleaving sword, and appreciate Sar's help in learning more about how to balance things.

[Sar]

dude I'm the last person here to talk about balancing things

[Hirsch I]

dude

how very sexist of you.

[archaeo]

hirsch pls

e: also sar pls

[Elystan]

+8 because that's what the other two demon blade unrandarts do

well, except katana isn't a demon blade and Leech is... wait, Leech is now +8?

Bloodbane is a demon blade

[pubby]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mLQpQFGHjA