Mana shield patch. This patch is ready to be aplied to a Vanilla angband 2.9.5-alpha wich has been patched with the Mana curse patch. It adds a new item flag : TR3_MANA_SHIELD replacing the (I hope) unnused flag : TR3_XXX2 Objects to get this flag should get marked with MANA_SHIELD at edit/object.txt When the player is wearing an item with this flag he will not die by suffering damage above its hit points instead all damage above its hit points will be deduced from his mana points. Only when damage exceeds hip points plus mana points the player will die. If the player has both mana curse and mana shield, he will suffer the mana curse and mana shield will be ignored. Which objects should get this very powerful shield is up to the mantainer and users. TO DO: The descriptions given about mana shield by self knowledge and *identify* should be better (or more artistic). Wizard mode commands do not know about this flag. Luthien josedura@wanadoo.es