Arrow and Spear Traps

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Can anyone quantify the limitations, if any, on the sort of items these
traps can generate?
I'm certain I've never seen a higher metal, stone or orcish spear
generated. Can ego items be generated? Metal arrows? Artifacts? Is it DL
dependent?

 

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frobnoid wrote:
> Can anyone quantify the limitations, if any, on the sort of items
> these traps can generate? I'm certain I've never seen a higher metal,
> stone or orcish spear generated. Can ego items be generated? Metal
> arrows? Artifacts? Is it DL dependent?

Spear traps only generate 'Spear' items (regular spears) and arrow traps
only generate regular arrows. I assumed they worked like normal
generation where they could randomly have prefixes and suffixes, but
this is surprisingly not the case -- they are specifically denied any
ego-ness. They can still vary the standard +/- 3 for ToHit and Damage.

Spears are always created while arrows are created 1/3 of the time.