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<blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 8870113" data-attributes="member: 86051"><p>A-a-a-a-h-a! Good point. Yes, I can now see why giving them sort of armor can be a problem, especially in the light of Mr Liber's desire to allow for them to be made permanent. I suppose I've never given the issue much thought, for WD21 says that everything disintegrates (and I would strongly support keeping that) and I've never thought of the possibility that players could try and get their hands at the armors (of course, MY players would NEVER EVER entertain such notions for they are... oh, well, who am I fooling?). By the way, I'd say this would be another strong argument for making DWs magical creations that cannot be tampered with in any way because the armors and everything the come with are, in fact, somehow and integral part of them - but that's 2E an therefore not really what we're looking for here.</p><p>How's about adding some note along the lines of "any items removed from a DW in any way instantly disintegrate into useless dust as if the DW had been destroyed?" Perhaps the DW then disintegrates as well? Note to self: Add this to the 2E conversion.</p><p></p><p>If not, then making the armor as worthless/non-magical/non-dragon-scale-armor as possible is definitely teh way to go!</p><p></p><p>As to the shields: I wouldn't add them myself because many WD illustrations take liberties with what's in the texts and what not and I tend to stick to the text in case of doubt. However, I've seen you guys do take the illustrations into account in other conversions and that's an interesting approach, so I don't really care if we go for shields.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ilgatto, post: 8870113, member: 86051"] A-a-a-a-h-a! Good point. Yes, I can now see why giving them sort of armor can be a problem, especially in the light of Mr Liber's desire to allow for them to be made permanent. I suppose I've never given the issue much thought, for WD21 says that everything disintegrates (and I would strongly support keeping that) and I've never thought of the possibility that players could try and get their hands at the armors (of course, MY players would NEVER EVER entertain such notions for they are... oh, well, who am I fooling?). By the way, I'd say this would be another strong argument for making DWs magical creations that cannot be tampered with in any way because the armors and everything the come with are, in fact, somehow and integral part of them - but that's 2E an therefore not really what we're looking for here. How's about adding some note along the lines of "any items removed from a DW in any way instantly disintegrate into useless dust as if the DW had been destroyed?" Perhaps the DW then disintegrates as well? Note to self: Add this to the 2E conversion. If not, then making the armor as worthless/non-magical/non-dragon-scale-armor as possible is definitely teh way to go! As to the shields: I wouldn't add them myself because many WD illustrations take liberties with what's in the texts and what not and I tend to stick to the text in case of doubt. However, I've seen you guys do take the illustrations into account in other conversions and that's an interesting approach, so I don't really care if we go for shields. [/QUOTE]
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