Re: firebrand gone wrong? answer: feature not bug

[Peter Mardahl <>]

In message <>,  write
s:
>demons and all I kept getting was "you missed the demon" - I
>couldn't hit them at all. I did better if I wielded nothing

Since a Firebrand uses Fire as its attack instead of
Physical (it attacks only with AT_FIRE) you will ALWAYS
miss something which is immune to fire.  It is a feature,
not a bug.

Other weapons will have this same effect somewhat differently,
as in a weapon with a pure AT_MAGIC attack hitting something
immune to magic, etc.

>Anyone have any idea what is going on? Surely Firebrand has
>a physical attack as well as a fire attack? This is all

Read the archetype for Firebrand.  The behavior you describe
is exactly that of having only an AT_FIRE.


PeterM