Lighten the load. "How too lower the weight in armor?"

[Brother Shatterstone]

Okay we all know, and have probably used, Mithral as a special material but does anyone know of any other way, 3rd party, etc, that can cut out some of the weight of armor also?

What about dropping the type: heavy, medium, etc.

I think I have the Armor penalty and Max Dexterity covered.

 

[Felix]

Well, Arms & Equipment Guide provides some different armors...
Bone Armor
Cord Armor
(I think) Bamboo Armor

I've also seen stone, cyrstal, scale, and wooden armors.

But I think Mithral is the only special material with the express purpose of functioning the same as steel armor, except it's lighter and more manaeuverable.

 

[Scion]

You could probably convince some dm out there that an extra gp charge for the armor could reduce the weight by some amount.

How about +2kgp per size category to reduce the weight by half. That way heavy armor costs 6k extra but would weight half as much. Off the top of my head I see no balance problems with it.

Maybe even a +1 enhancement to reduce an armors weight by a factor of 10?

 

[pyk]

Darkwood

But I think Mithral is the only special material with the express purpose of functioning the same as steel armor, except it's lighter and more manaeuverable.

Darkwood - Same quality as steel but half the weight of wood, for the cost of 10gp per original pound.

At least, it is in 3.0 DMG.

 

[Felix]

This doesn't answer your question directly, but...

Heh heh, ever read Dune? Baron Harkonnen had levitation-buoys fastened to himself so he could move his tubby self around. I don't see why a suit of armor couldn't have similar magic items installed. Have each Levitational Buoy reduce the weight by 5 to 10 lbs. You could employ similar but larger items to make moving heavy materials, like stone, easier; the big ones would take thousands of pounds of pressure. In fact, off I go to write this item up...

pyk
Darkwood - Same quality as steel but half the weight of wood, for the cost of 10gp per original pound.

True, but I kinda think that stuff was made for Druid edification, not for general consumption.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Thanks for all the help people. I just went with the Mithral it got full plate down to 25 lbs and then with a few other bonus I got the armor penalty down to 0 and the max DEX unlimited.

 

[Scion]

Sounds good hope it goes well!

As for the dune reference, I actually made something like the fremen still suit via the alchemy skill and some help from a few other sources. It was pretty cool