Giant club

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Name	Giant club
Skill	Maces & Flails
Damage	20
Accuracy	-6
Base delay (%)	16 (160%)
Min delay	7 at skill 18
Hands	2H
Size	Large
Ranged?	No

A giant lump of wood. "Therewith the gyant buckled him to fight, Inflamd with scornefull wrath and high disdaine, And lifting up his dreadful club on height, All armed with ragged snubbs and knottie graine, Him thought at first encounter to have slaine. -Edmund Spenser, _The Faerie Queene_, Book I. "The Legend of the Knight of the Red Crosse", Canto VIII, stanza vii, l. 55-9. 1590.

The giant club is an inelegant but devastating weapon, dealing massive damage but requiring the four arms of a Formicid or the sheer size of an Ogre or Troll to wield at all. It uses two hands, even for Formicids, and also requires a lot of skill to swing quickly.

They are fairly common, as ogres often carry them and can be encountered in the early Dungeon. However, they are inferior to giant spiked clubs, so you may want to save any scrolls of enchant weapon for one of those. They are never found branded normally, but Okawaru and Trog may gift you branded or randart ones.

Usually, if you can wield a giant club, you should be using a giant spiked club. The only usual exception to this rule would be artefact giant clubs with the speed brand.

Mundane	Magical	Artifact	Unrandart Giant Club "Skullcrusher"

History

• Prior to 0.17, giant clubs had a base delay of 17, reaching minimum delay at 20 skill.