Magic Item Size

[GakToid]

Quotes from the SRD:

SIZE AND MAGIC ITEMS
When an article of magic clothing, jewelry, or armor is discovered, most of the time size shouldn’t be an issue. Many magic garments are made to be easily adjustable, or they adjust themselves magically to the wearer. As a rule, size should not keep overweight characters, characters of various genders, or characters of various kinds from using magic items.

Magic armor, like almost all magic items, resizes itself to fit the wearer.

What else resizes?

* Wondrous items? (hats, goggles, cloaks, necklaces, robes, vests, bracers, gloves, belts, boots?)
* Rings?
* Weapons?
* Wands/Rods/Staves?
* Scrolls?
* Potions?

To illustrate:
A Storm Giant (Huge) and a Grig (Tiny) are comparing equipment. What can they swap and still use?

-Gak Toid

 

[kreynolds]

What else resizes?

Anything that can fit into the categories of clothing, jewelry or armor. For example...

* Wondrous items? (hats, goggles, cloaks, necklaces, robes, vests, bracers, gloves, belts, boots?) - all clothing or jewelry
* Rings? - jewelry
* Weapons? - none of the above
* Wands/Rods/Staves? - none of the above
* Scrolls? - none of the above
* Potions? - none of the above

A Storm Giant (Huge) and a Grig (Tiny) are comparing equipment. What can they swap and still use?

Clothing, jewelry, or armor.

 

[Maitre Du Donjon]

From memory, it costs more to make armor for bigger creatures (and maybe less for smaller creatures... not sure). A magical armor is first a masterwork armor, then it is made magic. So if a storm giant wanted a magical armor, he could ask a smith to make him one - regular size - regular cost, and then ask his wizard friend to enchant it. Then since it is now a magical armor that resizes with the user, he could put it on?

Maitre D

 

[kreynolds]

Then since it is now a magical armor that resizes with the user, he could put it on?

It's kind of a cheesy loophole, but if your DM doesn't have a problem with it, then yeah.

 

[Dimwhit]

We always played that armor resized within a size category. So a suit of magic chainmail made for a Gnome (small) would fit any small-sized character, but would not resize to medium or large. And so on.

Is this our own little house rule, or will any magic armor resize to fit any size category out there? (Seems odd that small armor could resize to huge, for example.)

 

[kreynolds]

Is this our own little house rule, or will any magic armor resize to fit any size category out there?

Per the rules, armor resizes to fit the wearer, no matter the size difference. Or, more specifically, the rules do not impose any kind of size differential limitation on magic armor.

 

[demiurgeastaroth]

We always played that armor resized within a size category. So a suit of magic chainmail made for a Gnome (small) would fit any small-sized character, but would not resize to medium or large. And so on.

Is this our own little house rule, or will any magic armor resize to fit any size category out there? (Seems odd that small armor could resize to huge, for example.)

The quoted text up in the first post is missing one sentence:
"As a rule, size should not keep overweight characters, characters of various genders, or characters of various kinds from using magic items. Players shouldn't be penalised for chooisng a halfling character or deciding hat their character is especially tall."

This strongly implies that halflings can take commonly found armour - so it must change size category.

Darren

 

[Ferret]

I was thinking on this subject, wouldn't it make sense that smaller items, whilst taking up less materials, would be harder to make and thus more labour.

It's like all those itty-bitty painting etc.

 

[Mike Sullivan]

It might be reasonable to suggest that the "resizing" effect is limited to one or two size categories.

With a one size-category limitation, all of the core races could still use each other's stuff (a "native" Small armor could go up to Medium to fit a human, and the reverse). Further, if someone were permenantly jumped up to size Large, they could still fit most armor (not gnome armor, but human armor). But it would avoid sillyness where a Titan is putting on armor that fits in the palm of his hand.

 

[kreynolds]

But it would avoid sillyness where a Titan is putting on armor that fits in the palm of his hand.

If it's magical, it won't fit in the palm of his hand...well, not for long, anyway.