A Merc's Life [OOC 01]

[Maidhc O Casain]

Basic supplies from the depot are at no charge - one of the purposes of the 10% contribution from your loot.

 

[Leif]

Basic supplies from the depot are at no charge - one of the purposes of the 10% contribution from your loot.

In that case, Houwlou will snag a week's rations for himself (in case he hits a dry patch in his hunting) and a week's grain for Puddin'. "Ok, look here, men, I'll try to tend to Puddin', as a rule, but if anything happens to me, or someone else just fills in for me, do NOT give her more than about three quarters of a day's worth of grain per day. We don't want her gettin' fat and slow on us, and this way, she'll be in a hurry to get home. When I get her home, I always let her indulge herself on grub to her muley little heart's content."

 

[Leif]

Houwlou is NOT happy! He wanted Gnoll Blood!

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

BTW, odd as it may seem Houwlou can sleep in his chain shirt without penalty (it's light armor). Since D&D/Pathfinder don't use hit locations, I'm having a hard time seeing any advantage of scale mail over a chain shirt other than cost. Am I missing something?

 

[Leif]

That's how it looks to me, too. If you can afford to shell out the gold for a chainshirt, there's absolutely no reason to opt, instead, for the heavier scale armor.

 

[renau1g]

For me it was for RP purposes.... I see a dwarf placing more value on scalemail than the chain shirt, despite its superiority. His goal is full plate, but that'll come

 

[Leif]

For me it was for RP purposes.... I see a dwarf placing more value on scalemail than the chain shirt, despite its superiority. His goal is full plate, but that'll come

Ahhh, there is that! Wow, Roleplaying! What a concept! Who'd-a thunk it?

Yes, you're right Ry, scale armor does seem better suited to a dwarf than a faggity, elvish-type chain shirt.

But, contrary to Aodhan, Houwlou favors greater mobility, hence he opts for the chain shirt. Which he makes look awfully good (and decidedly NOT faggity), btw, IIDSSM!

 

[renau1g]

And for dwarves the penalty isn't as great as it would be for the more mobile races (essentially everyone but dwarves) as we are stuck moving 20' per round regardless

 

[Leif]

And for dwarves the penalty isn't as great as it would be for the more mobile races (essentially everyone but dwarves) as we are stuck moving 20' per round regardless

Yes, you're right! You know, I hadn't even thought about that aspect of it before! Wow, thanks, Ryan. I couldn't see the forest for all these damned trees in the way! (Halflings and Gnomes are in the same boat, too, or maybe it doesn't work as well for them?)

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

For me it was for RP purposes.... I see a dwarf placing more value on scalemail than the chain shirt, despite its superiority. His goal is full plate, but that'll come

I was thinking (and hoping) that was the case. Good for you!

In regards to suffering less - Dwarven speed is never modified by armor or other encumbrance (Slow and Steady Racial Trait). Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the maximum Dex or the other encumbrance penalties, or the penalties for sleeping in Medium or Heavy Armor (taken care of quite nicely by Ryan (in character) yesterday).

Halflings and Gnomes could wear Scale Mail without suffering penalties to movement.