redrick
First Post
I guess the test would be to bring a fine cut of steak to your local fancy restaurant. See how much of a discount they'll give you. Extrapolate into dragonscale economy.
D&D 5E Dragonscale armor question
I guess the test would be to bring a fine cut of steak to your local fancy restaurant. See how much of a discount they'll give you. Extrapolate into dragonscale economy.
The Grassy Gnoll
Explorer
Oh, hi. Yeah. It's me again. This armour you want, yeah, you're gonna need to hang around for the month so I.can fit it right. I don't care about the drow threat your mates are going to stop, if you want this kit you're staying in town with me...
Hussar
Legend
That's a tad extreme for my tastes. After all, it's not a problem, per se, with the players having the dragon scale armour, at least, that's the sense I got from the OP. The players just want a discount. Not unreasonable. And I love the idea of bringing enough for two sets and getting a whacking great discount if you leave the other set with the smith/leatherworker. So, again, 50% isn't too far out there. That's still 25000 gp for armour with no bonus and gives you resistance to a specific kind of energy attack. We're not exactly talking Holy Avengers here.
AmerginLiath
Adventurer
Part of the question is the issue of labor. Dragonscale strikes me as a hard material to work with without ruining much of it. As a DM, I wouldn't want to ruin the work that PCs put into slaying a dragon and actually thinking of doing something with the corpse besides moving onto the next challenge (too often in 5e, the complaint it "what to do with the money?," so any interaction with the larger economy should really be rewarded). Still, a party having a dragon's corpse and looking for someone who can make armor is fodder for a fun minor quest. Nothing too crazy, but a matter of fighting out who has the skills and where they are while trying to guard and move the bulk of a dragon's remains from Point A to Point B safely (scaling the dragon properly would be part of the process of making the armor, in all likelihood). The DM shouldn't worry about trying to get the full gold amount, but rather the full story amount – by taking the hard road of moving a dragon's corpse to the smithy to save on gold, the characters are telling a story worth its own weight in gold!
S
Sunseeker
Guest
Dragon Scale armor seems unreasonably priced for it's benefits or basically being a Dragonborn.
Ahem. "Yol - Toor - Shul!"
William Hola
Villager
It really depends. If you are a spellcaster with the fourth level spell Frabicate then making dragonscale armor would be a walk in the park and I would suggest an 75-90% discount. If you are not a spellcaster then I suggest you take a 50% discount. I agree that you should always consult with your DM because they all have their own opinion.
Phazonfish
B-Rank Agent
Wow, nice necro post.
A few relevant details: Fabricate cannot be used to make magic items, which I think the armor may still be classified as. Even if its not, anything that requires a good deal of skill to craft requires you to have proficiency in the relevant tool to create with Fabricate.
Fabricate is a 4th level spell plus the spellcaster casting it would have to have skill as an armor smith. Unless you happen to have such in your party, it's not easy to find such a person and they would likely come at a premium, not a discount.
That's assuming your DM rules the Dragonscale is nonmagical - Fabricate can't work with/craft magical items. Looking at the discription of Dragon Scale armor, I'd certainly say it was magical for my game (heck, it requires attunement, unlike even basic magic armor)
To answer the question, the scales seem like a good portion of the cost. I'd give a steep discount (50% or so) or, more likely,l:
If I have the Smith, recognizing the group's capabilities of the party, I'd have some kind of trade or task/quest assigned to work off the armor.
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