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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1091836" data-attributes="member: 945">Here is the text from the entry:Variant DragonscaleDragonscale and dragonhide are often used to craft armor and shields. They have innate properties that make premier materials for armor and shields. Since these properties are extraordinaryrather than magical, they work all of the time as long as the character is wearing them, even within an anti-magic field.Dragonscale automatically adds the following properties to any armor or shields made from it. The power of the properties is based on the age category of the dragon. The armor or shield itself has a hardness of 20 plus the age category of the dragon and 5 hit points per age category of the dragon per inch of thickness. Thus, armor made from a mature adult dragon (category 7) would have a hardness of 27 and 35 hit points per inch of thickness. Hide, scale mail, breastplate, banded mail, half-plate, and full-plate armors can be made from dragonscale and dragonhide. Small, large,and tower shields can also be created. Shields created are half as effective (round down) in all categories as their armor equivalents. Shields incur only half as much arcane spell failure asarmor in the same age category, but stacks with the armor’s arcane spell failure. The elemental resistance, natural armor bonus, and arcane spell failure for shields stack with dragonscalearmor. The spell resistance of a shield does not stack with armor. For example, wearing great wyrm armor and wielding a great wyrm shield, you would have 37 points of elemental resistance(25+12) and a natural armor bonus of +7 (5+2). The spell resistance would still be 20, and the arcane spell failure would be +22%. In this example, without the armor, the shield would provide the same values listed, and the wearer’s spell resistance would be 10. If using the armor breakout variant rules, all of the core components in a set of armor must be made from dragon scales or hide in order to receive all the benefit. Otherwise, fractional benefits are gained as determined by the GM.  The process for crafting dragonscale armor or shields is time-consuming and difficult. The DC to craft the armor or shield is 15, plus the AC bonus of the armor or shield, plus one per agecategory of the dragon. Hence, crafting great wyrm full plate would have a Craft (blacksmith) DC of 35 (15 + 8 + 12).Wearing dragonscale armor or shields is risky. It’s quite showy and sure to get a reaction, not only from NPCs, but from other dragons that might be watching.Table 7.4 Dragon ElementsDragon..............................................ElementBlack, green, or copper dragons ........AcidBlue or bronze dragons .................ElectricityRed, brass, or gold dragons ..............FireWhite or silver dragons .....................ColdTable 7.3 shows the amount of spell resistance, natural armor, arcane spell failure, and market value modifiers per age category of dragon.  You'll have to buy the book to get that table!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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