# Barbed devil

&amp; barbed devil 

Difficulty

10

Attacks

Claw 2d4, claw 2d4, sting 3d4

&amp; barbed devil 

Difficulty

10

Attacks

Claw 2d4, claw 2d4, sting 3d4

Base level

8

Base experience

179

Speed

12

Base AC

0

Base MR

35

Alignment

8 (lawful)

Frequency (by normal means)

2 (Quite rare)

Genocidable

No

Weight

1450

Nutritional value

400

Size

Medium

Resistances

Fire, poison

Resistances conveyed

None

A barbed devil:

 has a thick hide.

 is poisonous to eat.

 does not eat. (*)
 is a demon.

 is normally generated hostile.

 can follow you to other levels.
 is nasty.

 has infravision.
 can be seen through infravision.

 appears only in Gehennom.

 normally appears in small groups.

 never leaves a corpse.

Reference

monst.c#line2589

The barbed devil, &amp;, is a kind of major demon that appears in NetHack.

Generation
Barbed devils are flagged to appear only in Gehennom, but no lawful creatures can be randomly generated there; thus, they are effectively never randomly generated. They share this trait with horned devils and erinyes.
Barbed devils may be created in groups wherever they do appear, and are valid forms for a polymorph trap, which may result in them appearing much earlier in the main dungeon. They are also eligible for gating by other major demons.

Strategy
Barbed devils have stronger attacks than horned devils, but possess weaker AC. Their damage is unimpressive for the point at which they are normally encountered, and even in groups they are not much threat to a player skilled in dealing with demons or multiple opponents.

Encyclopedia entry

&nbsp;These devils lack any real special abilities, though they
&nbsp;are quite difficult to kill.

 

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