Looking for a good arms/equipment source

[SavageRobby]

I'm about to start up a new campaign (Paizo's Pathfinder, using Savage Worlds), and I'm looking for a good book of arms, items and equipment with a currency system and relative values that makes sense and are fairly internally consistent. (Most equipment books I've read are kind of wonky when it comes to relative values of items.) My preference is for lower-magic where even simple magical items (a magical torch, for example) are out of reach for all but the richest.

I'd really like to find a definitive book to be the single source for the campaign, but I don't mind shelling out for multiple books (or PDFs) if they work together well.

Any suggestions?

 

[Mark]

From Stone to Steel might be a huge help to you -

http://enworld.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2669

 

[Nylanfs]

I would suggest Arms & Armor v3.5e by Bastion Press (might be under DragonWing Games now). They did lots of real-world research on weapons and armor.

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1426&it=1

 

[SavageRobby]

Cool, I'll take a look at each. Any more suggestions?

 

[GAAAHHH]

Ultimate Equipment Guide Volume 1 by Mongoose. This book has lots of weapons, armor, adventuring gear, herbs, and miscellaneous equipment. I haven't seen a more useful book of equipment yet.

 

[JDJblatherings]

From Stone to Steel and Arms and armor are both greta books for weapons and armor. But they dont' stray into areas of other gear. The first book groups stuff historically and does a grat job.Thr second book does soem comrehensice covearge of weaposn and armor but is betetr recomended for it's impressive selection of magical weapons and armor.

Ultimate Equipment Guide by mongoose is pretty good. It has equipment catgorized by area of use and covers all the bases for items. Some items seem uneven in power to cost to me but nothign too horrible.

Goods and Gear by kenzer is pretty darned comprehensive. Info on just what a marketplace is, weaponry, armor, clothing, entertainment, musical instruments, tools and general equipment, food and drink, concoctions, services(barbers, brothels and mercs) , animals, lodging and travel.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

Goods and Gear by kenzer is pretty darned comprehensive. Info on just what a marketplace is, weaponry, armor, clothing, entertainment, musical instruments, tools and general equipment, food and drink, concoctions, services(barbers, brothels and mercs) , animals, lodging and travel.

LINK for reference...

 

[SavageRobby]

How are the economics in Kenzerco book? Do the prices make sense in relation to each other?

 

[Aus_Snow]

From Stone to Steel is very good indeed. If it's low magic you'll be running, as you mentioned, that book would also be far superior to Arms & Armor.

However, it (obviously) doesn't cover much of the 'items and equipment' side of things. I've heard some good things about that Kenzer book. Another thing that springs to mind is '...and a 10-foot pole' from Iron Crown (ICE) - not D&D/d20, of course, but it does contain a fair bit of stuff.