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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azgulor" data-source="post: 4094024" data-attributes="member: 14291">Actually, it was the idea that everything falls into the mundane, cooler, roxxor categories that bothered me most.I need Starleather armor!  Oh, throw those regular diamonds away, only astral diamonds are worth anything.Plus, the idea that astral diamonds are universal enough to be used as currency...bleh.The armor donning times have been used in my games, on more than one occassion.  Specific example - The PC's fortress is attacked in the dead of night.  Can the defenders hold long enough for the PCs to don their armor or do they need to rush to the ramparts.  I had a PC who favored plate armor quickly don a chain shirt so he could get to the fight sooner.As I said, to each their own, but I and my group tend to prefer our fantasy to be less over-the-top or less cartoonish, however you wish to describe it.When I mentioned these little gems to my gaming group some of the comments I got back included:Do they come in different colors?  If I find the gold Astral Diamond do I get an extra life, I mean healing surge?I would've thought those armors were cool...when I was 12.Is that astral diamond or asstral diamond?Sorry, sarcasm is the currency of the realm at times at our gaming table.  If you love these ideas, more power to you.  I didn't.</blockquote>