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<blockquote data-quote="dama" data-source="post: 1932649" data-attributes="member: 27214">How many medium sized dragons does it take to make 1 suit of full plate for a medium sized player?&nbsp; First, we have to define size categories.&nbsp; Page 131 of the 3e PHB shows 9 sizes;finedimunutivetinysmallmediumlarge (tall &amp; long)gargantuan (tall &amp; long)Colossal (tall &amp; long)MM (again 3e, page 63 under dragonhide) says a dragon has enough hide to make a suit of full plate 4 sizes smaller than the dragon.&nbsp; That would work out to be 4 dragons of medium size to make one medium sized full plate suit.&nbsp; I assume that each size larger or smaller is an increment of double or half.&nbsp; I am not trying to make dragonhide armor incredibly difficult to attain, just trying to find a reasonable path by which it is attained.&nbsp; I think that if you manage to kill a single great wyrm &amp; preserve the hide, you should end up with a superior product compared to&nbsp; killing &amp; skinning 16 small wyrmlings.&nbsp; I also think it obvious that any dragon would likely take offense to any dragonhide armor, becoming more upset the more personal the insult of an inferior race wearing the skin of one of their own.&nbsp; Wearing the hide of your mate or children would be right up there.&nbsp; If an enterprise developed to sell dragonhide harvested from healthy, living dragons, I think the enterprise would soon be under fire.&nbsp; To me, dragonhide armor is a dangerous item to have.&nbsp; What intelligent race would find acceptable the killing of their race by vermin to make an ornament to appease the vermin's ego?&nbsp; Lastly, I am asking to get a benchmark for Neverwinter Nights, the online game &amp; dragons there breed like vermin too.&nbsp; But, consider this, for the last few days we have done a lot of hashing things out.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; How many sets of dragon... anything that were taken from the still warm &amp; bleeding corpse of a dragon adorn your world?&nbsp; What are the dragons doing about this?&nbsp; Which of the dragons is going to be sacrificed next to feed this new fad?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dama, post: 1932649, member: 27214"] How many medium sized dragons does it take to make 1 suit of full plate for a medium sized player? First, we have to define size categories. Page 131 of the 3e PHB shows 9 sizes; fine dimunutive tiny small medium large (tall & long) gargantuan (tall & long) Colossal (tall & long) MM (again 3e, page 63 under dragonhide) says a dragon has enough hide to make a suit of full plate 4 sizes smaller than the dragon. That would work out to be 4 dragons of medium size to make one medium sized full plate suit. I assume that each size larger or smaller is an increment of double or half. I am not trying to make dragonhide armor incredibly difficult to attain, just trying to find a reasonable path by which it is attained. I think that if you manage to kill a single great wyrm & preserve the hide, you should end up with a superior product compared to killing & skinning 16 small wyrmlings. I also think it obvious that any dragon would likely take offense to any dragonhide armor, becoming more upset the more personal the insult of an inferior race wearing the skin of one of their own. Wearing the hide of your mate or children would be right up there. If an enterprise developed to sell dragonhide harvested from healthy, living dragons, I think the enterprise would soon be under fire. To me, dragonhide armor is a dangerous item to have. What intelligent race would find acceptable the killing of their race by vermin to make an ornament to appease the vermin's ego? Lastly, I am asking to get a benchmark for Neverwinter Nights, the online game & dragons there breed like vermin too. But, consider this, for the last few days we have done a lot of hashing things out. :) How many sets of dragon... anything that were taken from the still warm & bleeding corpse of a dragon adorn your world? What are the dragons doing about this? Which of the dragons is going to be sacrificed next to feed this new fad? [/QUOTE]

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