D&D 1E Armor book mentioned in 1e DMG now on Gutenberg

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trancejeremy

Adventurer

• Dec 20, 2012

• #1

Buried somewhat in the magical armor section in the DMG, EGG mentioned a reference work where he derived the AD&D armor from.
Armour & Weapons by Charles John Ffoulkes

Well, as that work is quite old, 1909, it's in the public domain in probably all places, and it's finally shown up on Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41676

 

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Mistwell

Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)

• Dec 20, 2012

• #2

Some of the art looks like it would fit well with the rest of the 1e core books

 

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S'mon

Legend

• Dec 21, 2012

• #3

Does it have all the made-up D&D armours (studded leather, splintmail, bandmail)?

Edit: A wordsearch on the doc was informative. Apparently 'banded mail' actually is both banded and mail, being a chainmail variant with reinforcing horizontal strips within the mail rings. Splinted is vertical strips of brigandine.

 

Last edited: Dec 21, 2012

Alzrius

The EN World kitten

• Dec 21, 2012

• #4

As a note, I think Gutenberg is a great web resource, but I'd also recommend checking out Gutenberg Australia; because the copyright laws there are different, it has a number of works that aren't on the American Gutenberg site (and vice versa).

EDIT: Ooh! Looks like there's also a Gutenberg Canada! Nice!

 

Last edited: Dec 21, 2012

Dyson Logos

Hero

• Dec 22, 2012

• #5

Thanks!

 

Eridanis

Bard 7/Mod (ret) 10/Mgr 3

• Dec 22, 2012

• #6

Nice catch. Onto my iPad for holiday reading you go...

 

howandwhy99

Adventurer

• Dec 22, 2012

• #7

Thanks for the christmas present

 

Orius

Legend

• Dec 23, 2012

• #8

I note with amusement that while the book describes weapons briefly, there is no excessivly long list of polearms.

 

grodog

Hero

• Jan 3, 2013

• #9

Thanks for the pointer, trancejeremy!

 

grodog

Hero

• Jan 3, 2013

• #10

S'mon said:

Does it have all the made-up D&D armours (studded leather, splintmail, bandmail)?

Edit: A wordsearch on the doc was informative. Apparently 'banded mail' actually is both banded and mail, being a chainmail variant with reinforcing horizontal strips within the mail rings. Splinted is vertical strips of brigandine.

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Simon, didn't you have a copy of the DM Log from BITD?---it contained very useful illustrations of armor types (as well as polearms and barding too ):