Weapons of player monsters

[Janis Papanagnou]

Already standing on the right altar on Astral my Barbarian was hit by
an adjacent player monster with the Firebrand. And greedy as he was
he decided to get that precious weapon, even with Pestilence not too
far away from him. Well, there was some confusion; he got blinded and
surrounded by many monsters, etc., but finally he got that artifact.
The log showed that the Firebrand was enchanted to +7 which seemed
extraordinary high; but inspecting the sources I found that the
enchantment could be anythinig from +4..+8, so the +7 was not unsual.
But I also found an interesting comment WRT Magicbane enchantment
/* mplayers knew better than to overenchant Magicbane */
and Magicbane in the hand of a player monster will only be enchanted
within the range +1..+4.[*] (No intention to re-open the "what is the
best enchantment for Magicbane" thread, but I thought that the source
code comment might be of some interest.)

Janis

[*] The optimum for _magical_ attacks is around +2/+3.