Tigers in longcoats: too awesome to exist?


Rules Questions


So I'm sure everyone knows the basic rules for polymorphing and armor. Druid wild-shapes, armor melds, druid sad. However, there seems to be a consensus that the wild-shaped druid can still put on barding after transforming, though usually with some help from other party members.

Now consider the armored coat. It's the only armor that can be donned and doffed quickly enough to be reasonable in a battle. Further, I can't find anything that would prohibit armored coat barding from being purchased for a mount, or in this case a druid wild-shaped into a dire tiger to model for the armorer (ignore for the moment the whole metal issue).

The druid and friends get ambushed, and the druid decides he wants to be a kitty now. He pulls the tiger-coat out of his trusty bag of holding as a move action, tosses it on the ground as a free, then wild-shapes as a standard. On the next round, tiger-druid picks up the coat as a move action (in his teeth, I guess? I can't find any prohibition for animals picking things up, anyhow), then spends another move action to put it on.

Now, I'm not sure shaped druids in barding was ever RAI, but it seems to work RAW, and the image of a dire tiger running around in an armored longcoat is too beautiful for me not to consider it. So my question is, am I missing something? Is there some reason this wouldn't work?


Ask your GM whether he'd allow a horse to put on its own barding, then get back to us. : )

Note that wild shape lasts more than long enough for someone to help the tiger into some tiger-shaped barding, so unless you need it at a moment's notice this shouldn't stop you from having a tiger in a badass coat (metal aside, as you said).

Grand Lodge

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Natch wrote:

Now, I'm not sure shaped druids in barding was ever RAI, but it seems to work RAW, and the image of a dire tiger running around in an armored longcoat is too beautiful for me not to consider it. So my question is, am I missing something? Is there some reason this wouldn't work?

Seems like a fairly stupid looking image to me given that tigers don't have rear legs longer than their forelegs and they can't stand up. But too each his own.


Maybe a catfolk or ARG-ized rakshasa gunslinger with a gunman's duster? It'd save you some trouble and probably get the look you're going for in a bit less ridiculous fashion.


blahpers wrote:
Maybe a catfolk or ARG-ized rakshasa gunslinger with a gunman's duster? It'd save you some trouble and probably get the look you're going for in a bit less ridiculous fashion.

Curse you, Pig-man! You beat me to the noir-Rakhasa idea! I was going to make a snarky post and everything, like how his palm faced outward as he dragged on his cigarette and narrated to the audience "When you hire me, you get a cool cat, and that ain't a fairy tale, kid. I got more orange and black on me than a convict throw into a vat of tar. "


Okay, I cede the floor completely on account of awesome.


Having played in a Shadowrun game where one of the BBEGs was a Rakshasa whose trade mark was an armored trenchcoat, I approve of where this is going.


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