The Lamentation of Lolth - OoC VI

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If everyone is ok with it a want to get some MW daggers, 2 would be good. It would give Ayden a base for his crafting (that is if he want to take the time to C what he can do with them.. )

Since I haven't gotten the Craft Weapons and Armor feat yet, I have to stick to misc stuff, however, I think I could whip you up a pair of gloves of Dex though (Songs of the Wind). If you would like those that is.

Mimic: If you want to pool our resources off list to see what we can and can't do, my e-mail is crow112101 (at) yahoo.com.

Kirinke: Unless you are going for flavor, why not just get a suit of MW chain? it protects better than the leather.

 

[kirinke]

True, but it's also heavier, you can't sleep in it and has an armor check penalty. Right now, Teleri needs the advantage of being able to sleep in the armor and be able to fight right off the bat. If she invested in heavier armor, she'd have to take it off, put it back on or do without in an encounter. To me, the leather seems to be a better deal at the min.

Now if she had some elven chainmail......

 

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*Shrug*..Ayden takes his off at night...and puts it on when he wakes up..it is one round to don a chain shirt should the party suddenly get attacked, and if he is needed that badly, he would fight with no armor, which has happened on several occasions. I guess I just look at the "RL" aspect of the fantasy game. No one sleeps in their armor when travelling. That is why you set watches and wake them up early enough to put it on.

Now if we were in a war campaign, it would be different, and we would all be dwarves...

 

[hippocrachus]

Calenthang manages. And I don't think sleeping in chainmail would be such a comfortable thing. Be it elven or not.
She has levels in fighter, so wearing armor that both grants her the highest AC Bonus and Max DEX wouldn't be out of character...

 

[kirinke]

True, true dat. I was talking with Hipp earlier and I'm thinking about getting either a MW chain shirt or maybe even elvish chain if we can afford it. I'm going to try and keep her to light armor, both for flavor and for other reasons. I'm going to definantly get her a darkwood sheild. And that cloak of resistance sounds shweet. Me likes.

Hmm. If Ayden is taking craft wondrous items, I think Teleri's next non-fighter bonus feat will be craft wand. That way at least, she can craft more cure based wands or whatever.

 

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Craft wand requires 5th level caster, but due to her being split class, it will be 9th level before she can take the feat, but take feats based around how you see her IC Kirinke, not OOC char "gaps".

Ayden follows a god of creation, so it is a natural path for him to take, at least for that feat. Finder created many things as a mortal, so he would encourage his priests to create things as well. However, as much as I would like to do it OOC, Ayden proly will not take CA&A, as Finder is not really a martial god. So, if we have that gap, so be it.

All in all I am just trying to say look at her for what she is to you and the path you want to walk with her, not what you think "we" want you to do with her. Same goes with the items you take. If you want the enchanted leathers, wear them with pride and just tell me to shut my pie hole when I question that choice, because in the end, she is your creation, not mine...

 

[kirinke]

Ah, thought it was level three. Probably for her, either brew potion or craft wondrous item. Haven't decided yet. Though there are plenty of neat things you can do with a cleric who has craft wondrous item.

I do like the idea of enchanted light armor. One you can't miss a guy in shiny metal plate armor. That's going to be your first target, because you assume that he is more powerful than the guy in leather armor or whatever, because he's successful enough to be able to afford that metal armor. And success generally means that he is one bad s.o.b. And you take out the Bad s.o.b's first.

On the other hand a guy who has enchanted light armor can move faster than the humanoid shield and has a comparable AC bonus. You probably won't at first glance be able to tell that the light armor is magical. But once he shakes off a few arrows like they were pins, you begin to get the idea that hay, maybe this guy is more than he seems. By then it's too late and you got a sharp pointy thing stuck in a very uncomfortable place, while the guy in the light magical armor loots your body and laughs at your corpse.

That's my thinking anyway.

Let's not get into the discussion of 'shoot the guys in robes first!'

 

[hippocrachus]

As the resident tank, I must point out that other armor types can be enchanted
Advantages and disadvantages abound.

 

[kirinke]

LoL. Also true.

 

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When it comes to the comparable AC bonus, it really doesn't match up. Even with enchanted leather, and we will use +1 as a default, it gives you an AC of +3, which is what she has right now with regular studded that she is wearing. The only difference is that it is that if she wanted to now add things to the armor she could now since the initial enchantment is there.

However, like you said, the feel is your own, but if you plan to mix it up with StormArmour leading the way, consider that ramifications of the actions, both IC and OOC. Again, not trying to sway you, just want you to see the coin for both sides, not the shiny enchanted side. As look how good the armor helped its last owner....


Edit: Took out the Dex comment, I do apologize as a 17 dex is nice..