Armor & Coins - please, No.

[Spatula]

Just because PCs might not have a reason to wear chain mail armor doesn't mean that it should just be tossed out of the game.

I agree, but such thinking has been derided as being overly simulationist when expressed in this forum. If the PCs aren't using it, and the NPCs don't actually wear armor (monster defense values are based on level & role, not equipment), then why have rules for it, or so the argument goes.

 

[WheresMyD20]

I agree, but such thinking has been derided as being overly simulationist when expressed in this forum. If the PCs aren't using it, and the NPCs don't actually wear armor (monster defense values are based on level & role, not equipment), then why have rules for it, or so the argument goes.

I see what you're saying. I don't want to get into the simulationist vs. gamist debate, but I will say that D&D has traditionally been a "big tent" game system that supports lots of different styles of play. I hope that, going forward, it stays that way.

 

[Andor]

From an art direction standpoint... What's with the wrap around armours? As far as I know no armour in history ever descended from the 'bathrobe' school of design.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

However, Godplate? Spiritmail? Starweave? Starleather?

GUYS.

DUDES.

WTH...

And Feywild, Shadowfell, Golden Wyvern, etc.

Common Word + Common Word = Product Identity.

I guess.

Their random name generator must nearly be on fire by now. Smoke pouring out of the machine.

 

[fafhrd]

Their random name generator must nearly be on fire by now. Smoke pouring out of the machine.

They should get a Crothian.

 

[The Little Raven]

D&D has a long and distinguished history of crap names, often in the form of lame anagrams, just completely unimaginative (Cloakers look like cloaks? BRILLIANT!), or of the dreaded "two words mated" style (owlbear, nightshade, arrowhawk), not the mention the relatively boring "two words put together" (shadow mastiff, shield guardian, rust monster, assassin vine). And that isn't even touching on the wholly ridiculous flumph, or duckbunny, or skum. I consider things like Feywild and Forgemail to be improvements over that.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Their random name generator must nearly be on fire by now. Smoke pouring out of the machine.

Seriously. They should have noticed it had a problem when two of their armour types started with the same word.

I consider things like Feywild and Forgemail to be improvements over that.

Those are, but Starleather? Godplate? Those are right up there with Duckbunny, imho.

 

[The Little Raven]

Those are, but Starleather? Godplate?

Zero problem.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

And Feywild, Shadowfell, Golden Wyvern, etc.

Common Word + Common Word = Product Identity.

I guess.

Their random name generator must nearly be on fire by now. Smoke pouring out of the machine.

With product identity you mean "A name for yet another thing that needed a name to identify and remember"? Or do you mean that just because you put two common words together, they have something that's worth to be protected by copyright or trademark or whatever else? Because I suspect you might need more than a name to get that...

 

[Wormwood]

Zero problem.

Agreed. Standard fantasy stuff here---no better, no worse.