Level Up (A5E) Broken armor and maintanance

[LordBP]

Portable Medieval forge, so you can get an idea of the size/bulk of it.

Think the biggest thing will be the supply of coal or charcoal that would be needed to do major repairs.

 

[lichmaster]

Portable Medieval forge, so you can get an idea of the size/bulk of it.

Think the biggest thing will be the supply of coal or charcoal that would be needed to do major repairs.

Ok, not gonna happen, esp in a jungle

 

[lichmaster]

You can, of course, houserule however you'd like. But RAW it’s the same set of tools and just a different DC between the two checks. A5E.tools even links to the Materials page for reference.

I don't agree with this. By collecting the above info, the forge seems to be required to do a repair for heavier metals: the table has a column named "Repairability".
Maintenance thus appears to be for minor things (greasing, fixing small dents, repairing latches etc) and wouldn't require a forge, but a failed check means that the small repair was botched and the item is now damaged

 

[LordBP]

I don't agree with this. By collecting the above info, the forge seems to be required to do a repair for heavier metals: the table has a column named "Repairability".
Maintenance thus appears to be for minor things (greasing, fixing small dents, repairing latches etc) and wouldn't require a forge, but a failed check means that the small repair was botched and the item is now damaged

So, for Splint Mail/Armor, repairs might be fairly easy depending on what was damaged.

If it was the leather backing, then you would probably need a leather sewing kit and some extra leather to patch it with.

If the plates were missing, then you would need to have extra plates and either a sewing kits or a rivet kit to add the plates to the backing.

If the plates were damaged, you would need the above and also a way to remove the damaged plates (cut the rivets or material used to sew to the backing).

Chain mail would also be fairly easy to repair depending on what the damage was. You would need more rings and someway to close them.

Plate armor would be more difficult depending on what the damage was.