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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6065324" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>I contain multitudes. My Conan literary criticism self is a Howard purist, while my Conan in RPGs self tends more towards' "whatever tickles my fancy".</p><p></p><p>When they have a disagreement it's settled with Broadswords At Dawn. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That might be a result of d20 D&D's two different kinds of chain armour getting mixed up.</p><p></p><p>A <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/armor.htm#chainShirt" target="_blank"><strong>chain shirt</strong></a> is light armour with a +4 armour bonus, while <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/armor.htm#chainmail" target="_blank"><strong>chainmail</strong></a> is medium armour with a +5 armour bonus.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's curious, the d20 SRD version of the Barbarian class isn't skilled in heavy armour. Did they change that for Conan?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That seems rather too much for leather. Then again, I have read that the Conan RPG tends to have heavily armored characters be more-or-less immune to light weapons. I remember seeing a "actual play" thread where the DM was saying the party's nobleman could basically ignore a small horde of Picts because their hunting bows and hatchets didn't do enough damage to threaten his armour.</p><p></p><p>That's probably <em>realistic</em> but I'm not sure how <em>Conanistic</em> it is. The big guy seemed to shear through chainmail like rotten string - but then, he was supposedly one of the strongest men alive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6065324, member: 57383"] I contain multitudes. My Conan literary criticism self is a Howard purist, while my Conan in RPGs self tends more towards' "whatever tickles my fancy". When they have a disagreement it's settled with Broadswords At Dawn. :cool: That might be a result of d20 D&D's two different kinds of chain armour getting mixed up. A [URL="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/armor.htm#chainShirt"][B]chain shirt[/B][/URL] is light armour with a +4 armour bonus, while [URL="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/equipment/armor.htm#chainmail"][B]chainmail[/B][/URL] is medium armour with a +5 armour bonus. That's curious, the d20 SRD version of the Barbarian class isn't skilled in heavy armour. Did they change that for Conan? That seems rather too much for leather. Then again, I have read that the Conan RPG tends to have heavily armored characters be more-or-less immune to light weapons. I remember seeing a "actual play" thread where the DM was saying the party's nobleman could basically ignore a small horde of Picts because their hunting bows and hatchets didn't do enough damage to threaten his armour. That's probably [I]realistic[/I] but I'm not sure how [I]Conanistic[/I] it is. The big guy seemed to shear through chainmail like rotten string - but then, he was supposedly one of the strongest men alive. [/QUOTE]
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