Do antimagic fields work on Dredmor?

I have a Warrior/Rogue-heavy character that has gotten down to the bottom floor once now. When I got there, Dredmor used a spell that killed me after one or two rounds.

I'm considering adding Emomancy into the mix so I can get Dampening Field of Angst (the antimagic field). Since I play on perma-death, I can't easily test this. I don't want to waste a skill slot for a single spell that might not even work.

Does this spell affect him, or does he resist it like the final boss in most games?

Solution 1:

1.0.9

In 1.0.9, there are reports that Dredmor was susceptible to anti-magic. I haven't personally made it down to Dredmor (I too play perma-death) to verify with the current build.

1.0.11

Since then Playing non-perma-death at patch level 1.0.11 with both Emomancy (Dampening field of Angst) and Magic Training (License to Cast), both of these anti-magic skills work as anti-magic on Dredmor. In each case the debuff was in effect, Dredmor was unable to cast spells.

Some considerations. The license to cast does damage and has a 14 turn cool down (15 turn long effect). Dampening field of angst is a 3x3 area effect, no damage, no cool down, lasts 15 turns and the area effect lasts 24 turns.

There have been no apparent changes since this time.