Armor & Coins - please, No.

[hafrogman]

Any takers of sapphire, amethyst, lapus lazuli, or amber?

Well, Astral Amber's easy, since real amber has a biological basis. However, "Tree Sap of the Gods" may not have the most epic ring to it...

How about "Earwax of the Gods"?

 

[delericho]

Fair enough. Your players used different armors than any of mine.

Indeed. I should note that I don't have a big problem with the loss of medium armour. I like it, but I'm not going to be heartbroken at its loss.

 

[Dinkeldog]

So we have:

Astral Diamond - tears of the gods

Astral Ruby - blood of the gods

Astral Onyx - bile of the gods

Any takers of sapphire, amethyst, lapus lazuli, or amber?

Astral amber could be the hardened resin of the nature gods?

 

[Stormtower]

Astral pearls, their

No, let's not go there.

Dude, you went there.

 

[Puggins]

Well, Astral Amber's easy, since real amber has a biological basis. However, "Tree Sap of the Gods" may not have the most epic ring to it...

Easy change- the floating bodies of dead gods have become firmament in the Astral Sea, infusing the flora and fauna that call these islands home with fleeting remnants of once-vast divine power. The tress and bushes that take root here exude sap far different that one finds on other soil....

 

[bganon]

Since it looks like they got ride of Armor Check Penalty for 4E, there's no mechanical benefit to having the old 3E version of "masterwork" in the game. So the term has been given a new meaning, related to magical armor. Doesn't mean that ridiculously expensive and well-made mundane armor doesn't exist, it just a cosmetic thing now, not a game benefit.

Armor Check Penalty does seem to still exist in some form. If you look at the preview characters, the Dwarf Fighter seems to have -2 to Athletics, Acrobatics, and Stealth. The Human Cleric has -1 to those skills. The Halfling Paladin gets -4 to Athletics and Stealth, -2 to Acrobatics. I'm guessing chain gives -1, scale gives -2, and plate gives -4 (but the halfling has +2 Acrobatics as a racial bonus).

 

[Incenjucar]

Dude, you went there.

I'm sure he meant pearls taken from the minds of the gods.

You know.

Where their wisdom was.



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So. Who wants to band together with some astral kobolds and go god mining?

 

[Satori5000]

Not really. Its sort of like if apes wore human armor.

Technically dragonskin armor is always a bit creepy. D&D dragons are a sentient race, so its about up there with an elf skin jerkin or a cloak made of ripped off fairy wings.

Yes, I agree with the creepy factor. In the description of the armor though, it specifically says "Wyrmscale is made using ancient techniques the dragonborn invented to MIMIC the strength of overlapping dragon scales". No where in that does it say it actually requires real dragon scales.

 

[ShinRyuuBR]

Dragonborn do NOT wear dragonskin armor. They wear WYRMSCALE armor, which is a masterwork scale armor that IMITATES dragon scales. Its a simple matter of style. Dragonborn are expected to imitate true dragons at every opportunity. This is one of them.

Edit: GAH! Satori trampled me over!

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I'm glad to see Astral Diamonds, because I don't even want to think about how many gold coins I would have to carry to buy godplate armor at the Mor-Mart.

Seriously, nothing I see here bothers me at all.

Though I am now wondering if Elderberries are berries scoured with elemental forces, and if they are, does that make them really, really clean?