D&D Arms and Equipment Guide sample pages up

[Westwind]

For some reason when I try to open the link, I can't properly download the information (my Adobe gives me an error message and I'm stuck with 3 pages with nothing but a little WotC header). Does someone have the germaine information for the items listed?

 

[Olive]

Thanks for the link Olive. Rules for vehicles and hirelings definitely sound interesting. Hopefully there's more good stuff than zuccini stuff.

indeed. zuccini stuff...

 

[jester47]

Stone armor is no more silly to me than bone or coral armor. I like the description and how it mentions it's typical use (dwarven defenders) and it's drawbacks (poor mobility, rarity). For a fantasy setting, I think it's great.

I believe that coral has been used as an armor historically by some pacific island tribes. But I could be wrong.

And in truth stone armor would not be much heavier than metal armor. Think about a stone shingle, and then harden it with magic or with baddass crafting skills.

Aaron.

 

[jester47]

I am almost exclusively buying this for the vehicle rules, mundane equipment, and the tables for rolling up caravans.

Aaron.

 

[jester47]

I just read the preview and I think it looks darned spiffy. The beetle buckler is frikken awesome. Though if I were to present it in my campaign it would be called "the Scarab of Nephthys" or somthing like that... Anything cooler than beetle buckler...

Aaron.

 

[Olive]

so now you're buying it for the vehicle rules, mundane equipment, the tables for rolling up caravans AND the crazy wierd stuff?

got ya.

 

[Zander]

I think "zucchini stuff" is the best description I've ever heard for the crappy parts of a gaming book, kenjib.

In British English that would be "courgette content" I suppose. And zucchini stuff/courgette content is the opposite of "crunchy bits".

With respect to lard armour, in 15th and 16th century Italy plate armour was sometimes stored in vats of olive oil. So even though there are no fatty armours IRL, there was oil-coated armour. I wonder what would happen if you set it alight.

 

[Gez]

Well judging from the stone, dwarven armor I am finally going to be able to have rules for crafting the marble handle for the battle axe my dwarf is crafting.

It's magic...

But without magic, you'd better staying with wooden or metal handles. Stone handles may have hardness, they'll have a weaker break DC. It's brittle, especially when shaped in such forms as a handle.

With magic, however, you may have crystal swords and goldenblades, anything, "it's magic".

 

[Desdichado]

Why is bone armor weird? A lot of real-world cultures essentially used bone armor.

Me? I'll stick with my Bastion Press book if I want more equipment. Although, frankly, I don't look at that very often. I've got pretty much all the equipment I could need in the core books.

 

[hong]

so now you're buying it for the vehicle rules, mundane equipment, the tables for rolling up caravans AND the crazy wierd stuff?

"Okay, but BESIDES the vehicle rules, mundane equipment, tables for rolling up caravans AND the crazy weird stuff, what have Wizards of the Coast ever done for us?"


Hong "I have a fwend called BiggusGeekus" Ooi