Resistance

Resistances protect you against several harmfull effects that you may encounter in the dungeon. A resistance can be either intrinsic, meaning a natural resistance, or extrinsic, meaning a resistance gained by wearing or wielding a certain item. Many insintric resistances can only be gained by polymorphing into a certain creature, which is not very convenient.

There are nine or ten different resistances, depending on whether you count reflection as one of them. Each resistance maps into a dragon of certain color &mdash; a dragon of that color has that resistance as intrinsic. The resistances are:


 * Acid resistance (yellow)
 * Cold resistance (white)
 * Disintegration resistance (black)
 * Fire resistance (red)
 * Magic resistance (gray)
 * Petrification resistance (chromatic)
 * Poison resistance (green)
 * Reflection (silver)
 * Shock resistance (blue)
 * Sleep resistance (orange)

Chromatic dragon is the caveman quest villain and resistant to almost everything.