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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6065104" data-attributes="member: 57383">Are we cross-posting? I mentioned that in my last post.Erm, if that's how you want your Cimmerian culture to roll that's fine by me, but the Celts of the La Tene period definitely wore metal armour - mail, helms, shields. They had a design of mail coat that was so good the Romans copied it. It was expensive though, so it was only wealthy areas (such as ancient Gaul) and/or elites who could afford it. Something only the elite/rich have almost always obtains a cachet rather than being "frowned upon".As for throwing weapons, spears would seem far more likely than handaxes.Oh, and the Cu Culain, the hero of Irish legend wore armour. If it was frowned upon as you claim such an idealized warrior as the Hound of Ulster wouldn't have it.I'm increasingly viewing anything not penned by Howard as "entertaining apocrypha" in relation to Conan stories. It may be incorporated in a Conan-related game if I ever get around to running one, but it equally may not, and I'd be as likely to use something from a Savage Sword of Conan comic or even the cartoon as any of the books.From what I remember of the Conan d20 rules the armour types aren't that different from D&D.Well it seems less of a stretch to assume they have that armour proficiency because they sometimes wear armour of that weight. Methinks at least some of their warriors should use such armour, otherwise they wouldn't have the proficiency.Cold Weather Clothing doesn't impose any mobility or armour check penalties in the d20 SRD - although it probably should. Under d20 RAW wouldn't be penalized unless they're wearing so much fur the weight gets them into Medium Encumbrance - which would require seven sets of Cold Weather Clothing! (Assuming an average Cimmerian has Strength 12 - they have a +2 racial bonus to Str if I remember the Conan RPG correctly).Yes, that'd do it. Especially in a game that uses armour-as-DR. A 1d6 arrow won't be of much use against a DR of 4+.</blockquote>

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