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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DocS" data-source="post: 3976229" data-attributes="member: 58675">One last thingSince the nyambe forum has been dormant for six months, I have a nyambe rules question perhaps someone can answer....And you get a +50 AC bonus?  -Now that I have the attention of the power gamers, lets see how...It's about the general magic beads (ancestral vault, P53).  If anyone cares.  So, the beads *are* supposed to be linked together into simultaneously functioning sets (this requires a craft(Beadworking) check of DC 15+ the number of beads in the creation), and there is a limit given on how *many* beads can be put into one such item (50,000 go worth of beads)...However, it isn't mentioned whether the beads *stack*.  One would initially think they do, with two +1 AC beads stacking into a +2 beadwork (and requiring a beadwork check of DC 17 to make the beadwork).  However, if that is the case, then the maximum for such an item is 50,000 gp worth of beads, which is 50 +1 ac beads , requiring a DC of 65 beadwork check,  which seems like a lot, but once you realize you're getrting +50 AC from it.... you realize it's cheap at twice the price...  MEanwhile a DC25 beadwork check (very do-able for a mid-level character) gets you +10 AC beads.AND that's for ONE beadwork item (a belt for instance), if that stacks with other beadwork items (like a bracelet or a headband), you could pump that AC to +150 or higher, which doesn't seem the intent, but there are limits, and the text does expressly state that the beads are meant to be strung together.  However, if they don't stack, there are really not very many types of beads, and thus the beadwork becomes almost moot since the big beads cost 40,000 or so, meaning that you can only have one or two of them in an item anyway, so what's the beadworking really for?  What do you think?</blockquote>

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