Diplomatic Immunity: Almost Ready Maybe?

[Rystil Arden]

Maybe a third time is a charm?

You can use the Gladiator purchasing plan, which gives you 8,000 gold but non-weapon/armour magic costs double. As for armour, they prefer it light, as many of their abilities cannot be used in heavier armour.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

You can use the Gladiator purchasing plan, which gives you 8,000 gold but non-weapon/armour magic costs double.

Okay.

As for armour, they prefer it light, as many of their abilities cannot be used in heavier armour.

I was actually wondering if the had any specialized, aka new, types of armor.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Okay.



I was actually wondering if the had any specialized, aka new, types of armor.

Nope. Gladiators have the same sorts of armour from which to choose as everyone else--wouldn't make sense if there was a cool armour for Gladiators that the Praetorians didn't also use for themselves. You can get armour made from a special material if you like.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Nope. Gladiators have the same sorts of armour from which to choose as everyone else--wouldn't make sense if there was a cool armour for Gladiators that the Praetorians didn't also use for themselves. You can get armour made from a special material if you like.

I was thinking more of a piece mail outfit. (I don’t think your old enough for that 2nd edition term to have any meaning for you.) Basically you would wear only pieces of another armor type, say plate mail, and only get some of the protection it would offer.

I only ask cause Roman Gladiators weren't known for wearing full suits of armor...

 

[Rystil Arden]

I was thinking more of a piece mail outfit. (I don’t think your old enough for that 2nd edition term to have any meaning for you.) Basically you would wear only pieces of another armor type, say plate mail, and only get some of the protection it would offer.

I only ask cause Roman Gladiators weren't known for wearing full suits of armor...

Oh dear, please don't assume that I didn't play second edition--because I did, for quite some time (not as long as many here, granted, but I've been at this for about 10 years now, back far enough to remember the Player's Option power-hike).

Sorry...pet peeve of mine.

I know what you are talking about, but 3E did away with all that and left the Breastplate to fill the "incomplete platemail" slot on the menu, and I'm not too sorry to see it go. That said, if you'd like to create a mechanically identical customised armour for Lyssa with a really cool piecemeal description, that would be neat.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Sorry...pet peeve of mine.

Yeah, but you didn’t have to walk backwards in the snow while playing… (Oh and Player's option: Skills and powers was awesome simply because they started separating appearance from charisma again. to bad it didn't last...)

I know what you are talking about, but 3E did away with all that and left the Breastplate to fill the "incomplete platemail" slot on the menu, and I'm not too sorry to see it go. That said, if you'd like to create a mechanically identical customised armour for Lyssa with a really cool piecemeal description, that would be neat.

I guess I will have to pass then... She can only wear light armor and their is no mithral and I don't see a material that mimics what I need out of it. (Which is a true reduction in the armor's weight category type.)

Nor do I think the economics of it all will allow her to afford it anyhow.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yeah, but you didn’t have to walk backwards in the snow while playing… (Oh and Player's option: Skills and powers was awesome simply because they started separating appearance from charisma again. to bad it didn't last...)



I guess I will have to pass then... She can only wear light armor and their is no mithral and I don't see a material that mimics what I need out of it. (Which is a true reduction in the armor's weight category type.)

Nor do I think the economics of it all will allow her to afford it anyhow.

(Oh and Player's option: Skills and powers was awesome simply because they started separating appearance from charisma again. to bad it didn't last...)

PO: Spells and Powers was insane though. I managed to build a cleric using that system who had all the Thief abilities, all the Fighter abilities (including Fighter THAC0 and Hit Dice), Wizard Invocation/Evocation spells, and Cleric Healing spells.

I also found that the subability scores were not balanced at all--for Strength, you could put up attack and damage at the cost of carrying capacity, for Dex, you could put up AC if you lower your ranged attacks, for Int and Wis, there was basically one subability for the casters who used those scores, which you would raise if you were those casters and lower if you weren't...no, I'm not too sad to see them gone.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Oh, and when I said mechanically identical, I didn't mean it had to be to Breastplate. If you want to make an armour that acts like Chain Shirt, for instance, and say that it is made of plates but is more piecemeal than Breastplate, go for it

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

PO: Spells and Powers was insane though. I managed to build a cleric using that system who had all the Thief abilities, all the Fighter abilities (including Fighter THAC0 and Hit Dice), Wizard Invocation/Evocation spells, and Cleric Healing spells.

I don’t really remember that one… (Old age is a bitch. )

 

[Rystil Arden]

I don’t really remember that one… (Old age is a bitch. )

They were silly--they made you buy every Sphere for your cleric (there were a bunch of Spheres), and they made each one cost a lot of points. So a normal cleric, you'd figure, would buy them all, just about, and that would be that. But if you only buy one, you are left with an absurd number of points to spend on other things.