Q: Armor of dragon skin
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Golandrinel
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Is the armour to be of one type of dragon or will it be a multi-coloured armour? That could be nice. It would give lesser resistances but to a broader spectrum of effect.
Kae'Yoss
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Re: Re: Q: Armor of dragon skin
Right! Forgot about that passage.
In addition, you can give the armor resistance to energy. A friend of mine had one of those, and got acid resistance 15, although 5 or 10 aren't to be spit at, either.
The only tricky part is that of the shadow dragon: Since the other dragon armors bestow resistance, it would be to powerful to give shadow dragon armor energy drain immunity. Maybe a "energy drain resistance", where they absorb a couple of negative levels each day.
Caliban said:
Right! Forgot about that passage.
In addition, you can give the armor resistance to energy. A friend of mine had one of those, and got acid resistance 15, although 5 or 10 aren't to be spit at, either.
The only tricky part is that of the shadow dragon: Since the other dragon armors bestow resistance, it would be to powerful to give shadow dragon armor energy drain immunity. Maybe a "energy drain resistance", where they absorb a couple of negative levels each day.
dcollins
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Just to recap Caliban's citation: by the rules you don't get any extra protections, resistances, or special abilities from any sort of dragonhide. Just masterwork hide armor (e.g.), and that's it.
If you're looking for more, I would recommend that you invoke the "Variant: Power Components" on DMG p. 96 and allow the hide to counteract the XP expense for enchanting the armor with the energy resistance in question.
If you're looking for more, I would recommend that you invoke the "Variant: Power Components" on DMG p. 96 and allow the hide to counteract the XP expense for enchanting the armor with the energy resistance in question.
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Murrdox
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Oh COME ON!!
Unless you want to simply ACKNOWLEDGE the fact that you're completely playing munchkin style, you can't simply make a suit of armor out of different colored dragon scales and get resistances to all sorts of elements.
A dragon's elemental resistances and damage reduction are based off of the magical properties of the dragon as a whole. NOT his skin. Next thing you know, you'll be saying that if you make a shield out of adult red dragon scales, you suddenly have 10/+1 damage reduction (or whatever DR an adult red dragon has). And then you'll say you have cold resistance because your armor has a few White Dragon scales on it... gimme a break.
Dragon hide makes MASTERWORK suits of armor of varying types, depending on how much material you have to work with. MASTERWORK, and never anything more than that.
Unless you want to simply ACKNOWLEDGE the fact that you're completely playing munchkin style, you can't simply make a suit of armor out of different colored dragon scales and get resistances to all sorts of elements.
A dragon's elemental resistances and damage reduction are based off of the magical properties of the dragon as a whole. NOT his skin. Next thing you know, you'll be saying that if you make a shield out of adult red dragon scales, you suddenly have 10/+1 damage reduction (or whatever DR an adult red dragon has). And then you'll say you have cold resistance because your armor has a few White Dragon scales on it... gimme a break.
Dragon hide makes MASTERWORK suits of armor of varying types, depending on how much material you have to work with. MASTERWORK, and never anything more than that.
Kae'Yoss
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Cool down, will you?
First, the original poster never spoke of more than one component. No chromatic armor that copies a ring of universal elemental immunity. Just a single color and just a resistence, where the dragon has an immunity.
Secondly, the DM can always alter it however he likes.
Also, we're not talking about hunting down dragons for the purpose of making armor of their scales. The dragons were enemies that were encountered normally, and the party couldn't avoid them, so they can get a little bit extra out of that, don't you think? It will probably be more expensive than masterwork armor, maybe something like 1000 gm or even more, and then you can expect a little. Again, we aren't talking about immunities here.
First, the original poster never spoke of more than one component. No chromatic armor that copies a ring of universal elemental immunity. Just a single color and just a resistence, where the dragon has an immunity.
Secondly, the DM can always alter it however he likes.
Also, we're not talking about hunting down dragons for the purpose of making armor of their scales. The dragons were enemies that were encountered normally, and the party couldn't avoid them, so they can get a little bit extra out of that, don't you think? It will probably be more expensive than masterwork armor, maybe something like 1000 gm or even more, and then you can expect a little. Again, we aren't talking about immunities here.
Murrdox
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Hey, I'm just pointing out that as far as the rules go - you can't do anything armor-wise with dragon skin aside from making a rather cool-looking suit of masterwork armor. Anything else is the DM allowing some munchkin. I know if I allowed that in my group, next thing I know I'd have a character trying to make a cloak out of Lich skin, and expecting himself to be resistant to negative energy.
Artoomis
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dcollins said:
Hear, hear. This is the way to go. Not overpowering in the least, but you still get more than just a fancy suit of armor.
Note that it will be scale mail only. I suppose you could scapre the scales off to get leather, but then I wouldn't allow the DMG variant rule to apply.
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