# Sword of Justice

)   Sword of Justice   

Base item

long sword

Damage vs. small

1d8 +12

Damage vs. large

1d12 +12

To-hit bonus

+5

Bonus versus

cross-aligned monsters

Weapon skill

long sword

Size

one-handed

Affiliation

lawful
(Yeomen)

When carried

(none)

When wielded

(none)

When invoked

(none)

Base price

1500 zm

Weight

40

Material

iron

The Sword of Justice is a lawful artifact long sword in SLASH'EM and SpliceHack.  It has +5 to hit and +12 to damage to all cross-aligned monsters.  It is the guaranteed first sacrifice gift for yeomen.

Strategy
It's a pretty good weapon: in terms of damage, it's actually on par with the Sceptre of Might in vanilla NetHack, and is far better than the version in SLASH'EM.  It is particularly useful since almost no lawful monsters are always generated hostile, meaning that a character with a reasonably good alignment record will very rarely encounter a monster which is not subject to the Sword of Justice's extra damage.  It is well worth sacrificing for if you're a yeoman.  Like most non-quest artifacts, however, it's certainly not worth an artifact wish, especially since lawfuls can just dip for Excalibur anyway.

SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, the Sword of Justice is a broadsword and not affiliated with any role. Additionally, the flat damage and to-hit bonuses are converted to dice rolls.