damage
The amount of damage you produce on your enemy in a fight depends on your weapon as well as on strength, hitroll, damroll and some other factors. The AC reduces the raw damage. The damage messages are as follows: message damage ------------------------ tickle 1-2 barely 3-4 hit etc. 5-6 hard 7-10 e.g. level 10 mob very hard 11-14 extremely hard 15-19 massacre 19-23 slaughter 24-27 e.g. level 35 mob OBLITERATE 28-33 EVISCERATE 34-40 DEVASTATE 41-48 PULVERIZE 49-59 e.g. level 60 mob ANNIHILATE 60-80 TERMINATE 81-149 DECIMATE 150-249 ridicule >= 250 Maximum damage (in ordinary cases) is 100 (except assassination/backstabbing/circle/fireweapons/spells/Critical hits).
See Also: ac, weapon, fight, fireweapons, fireweapon, weapons