The Rod of Seven Parts: Kauai Team OOC

[CanadienneBacon]

As I currently have it planned and organized, there are only the homebrew and dragon pantheons. I'm open to player curiosity, however. Was there something in particular you were wanting?

 

[CanadienneBacon]

As for the spider legs. It would be survival to "harvest" the parts but it would fall under Armorsmithing (carapace) to actually make armor out of them. There is an extensive overview of this kind of armorsmithing in the Complete Drow book as well as one of the Eberron books (I think races but I'm not sure.) Drow are known for this sort of armor.

Ambrus wants to manufacture a bow out of the legs, I think. He seems to want to pay a weaponsmith to make the bow, but if he wanted to Craft it himself and were prepared to do so, I should think that'd fall under Craft (weaponsmith). For just getting the legs off the carcass, or for getting the exoskeleton plates off, I was more looking for a skill for that. I don't own it myself, but a friend has the Underdark book--leastaways, I think she does...it may be one of the books her husband took with him to Iraq for the year. If it's not in there or there isn't anything suitable in the PHB, then I will make a trip to the bookstore to look for some of the other sources you mentioned. Basically, however, unless it's just a gross neglect of something patently in the PHB, I'm ready to simply say he gets what he needs to make his bow.

 

[Voadam]

As I currently have it planned and organized, there are only the homebrew and dragon pantheons. I'm open to player curiosity, however. Was there something in particular you were wanting?

No problems or preferences either way, I'm exploring the world as a newcomer.

I'm guessing the fish hook was an innocent good luck charm or holy symbol of a fishing god (I believe we are in an appropriate city section for a thug to have a fishery god's holy symbol). Or possibly a torture symbol indicating he was possibly a member of a demon cult or one of the darker gods. Or the symbol could be for a group or thieve's guild or something like that.

If there are no gods but the two pantheons and none of them use a fish hook symbol then that eliminates the possibility of an innocent holy symbol of a minor fishing god and I can then focus my consideration on the other possibilities.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

This would be totally meta, but no God in my homebrew uses a fishhook as its primary holy symbol. And though I have toyed with adding an ocean deity for a couple of years now, I haven't done it yet, so there is no water God.

Have you ever seen those ivory or bone Maori and Hawaiian fishhook pendants that some people wear on a cord around their throat? Think that style.

 

[Ambrus]

Ambrus wants to manufacture a bow out of the legs, I think. He seems to want to pay a weaponsmith to make the bow, but if he wanted to Craft it himself and were prepared to do so, I should think that'd fall under Craft (weaponsmith). For just getting the legs off the carcass, or for getting the exoskeleton plates off, I was more looking for a skill for that. I don't own it myself, but a friend has the Underdark book--leastaways, I think she does...it may be one of the books her husband took with him to Iraq for the year. If it's not in there or there isn't anything suitable in the PHB, then I will make a trip to the bookstore to look for some of the other sources you mentioned. Basically, however, unless it's just a gross neglect of something patently in the PHB, I'm ready to simply say he gets what he needs to make his bow.

Cleaning a carcass would fall under the Survival skill in my opinion. Using the materials to then craft something would fall under the craft skill; respectively craft (bower/fletcher) for making a bow and craft (armorsmithing) for armor. The Player's Handbook is all you'd need to adjudicate either process, unless you want to introduce special rules for chitin armor or weapons (which may exist in the Arm's and Equipment Guide, I'd have to check); otherwise the armor would likely be equivalent to either leather or hide. If you want to be more liberal then you could equate it with dragonhide as a special material, mirroring the costs, time and results for that material as presented in the Dungeon Master's Guide; allowing for the manufacture of the types of armor usually limited to being produced with metal.

 

[Voadam]

Have you ever seen those ivory or bone Maori and Hawaiian fishhook pendants that some people wear on a cord around their throat? Think that style.

Never. Ties, bolo ties, bow ties, scarves, kerchiefs, necklaces, amulets, dog collars, chokers, and other pendants yes but never a hook pendant. But then I work in Washington D.C. and don't live in Hawaii.

 

[Ambrus]

I think this is what CB is referring to:

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Pulling out the wand from the deep of his pants Gamad wave the wand for the goblin to see, he then pass the wand to the Voadam.
You are trusty enough to bear it.

I LOLed!

 

[Ambrus]

Yeah. Me too.
"Watch out, I think the albino's got wood in his breeches."

Strahd, please tell us you were aware of how that would sound when you typed it.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Yup, that is the exact shape I had in mind for the fish hook pendant. That shape but with an older, more antique looking piece of bone.