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A clarification for armor versus weapon manufacture.....

First, a mithril shirt, being just a chain shirt, can be all metal. The wire is made into rings which is then woven together and acts as cloth.

As for difficulty to manufacture, from personal experience, armor is MUCH easier to make than weapons. I can make a chain shirt in a week just sitting in front of the tv with enough rings and 2 pairs of pliers. Of course, time and difficulty go up with smaller rings, or denser mail. Plate, I have not made, but I have made brigandine, just sheet metal plates rivited to leather. That takes time, but is fairly easy if you have access to an anvil and the right hammer. A coat of plates (brigandine shirt) can be made in a weekend. Nothing overly fancy, but fully functional and historically accurate.

Unlike armor, weapons on the other hand are not cut and shaped out of sheet steel, and require vast amounts of training to make, years of apprenticing at the forge. It is very specialized work, and even with the correct tools and access to a forge is very difficult work.

I am on Xbox Live as Sighvat. Fable 2, GoW2, Rock Band, etc...

Bummer, I missed this one. I heard nothing about it. The Frisco store did not look packed when I drove by it either.

Tales of the Floating Vagabond.

Wanted to play it for YEARS, never found anyone interested.

I think that Brigandine should be added to the armour list as Medium or High-end Light armour. It's a common RW armour type and is different than scale in weight/coverage and less cumbersome too, but less costly than a breastplate.

Maybe something in between Breastplate and Scale? Either that, or make it light armour, but a little more cumbersome than a chain shirt and slightly less expensive with the same armour value?

Brig is great armor, add in a good bascinet (helm) and you are fairly well protected, and it does not cost much to make. I am actually working on my own brig gauntlets. For very good examples, google "armor of the battle of Wisby".

Dallas, Texas

Well, ours is a more recent "tradition" but it happened one year, probably about six or seven years ago now, that nobody really felt like cooking dinner. We found what was probably the only open restaurant in Dallas, Texas on Christmas Day - a Japanese restaurant. It was fantastic. Now we go every year.

Which restaurant? I bet there is an Indian restaurant or two open as well.

Just don't add it to my scotch. Hot water only.

Had my first single malt scotch just last Friday. It was great stuff. Hated the blended stuff I had tried in the past.

I drank it neat (that the right term for straight with nothing added?), are you supposed to add hot water to it?

None of it stuck to the ground over here. I never heard any official measurement, but it looked like at least half an inch on our roof. Of course, my family's homes in N. Dallas got nothing at all.

@ Sighvat - You're not meant to, so don't even try! On the other hand, I can tell you that OK weather is even crazier.

Well, we are right in the spot where we get fronts from the west coast, from the north, and the gulf all swirling together. Just wish it would pick something, warm or cold and stick with it for a week at a time. Sick of the yoyo effect. 20 degrees and sleet today, 70 tomorrow.

You all get the nasty weather on Monday? I tried to drive to Lewisville for my class on 14th century Swordsmanship, and had to turn around halfway there as the highway was at a dead stop.

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Up here in Dallas, Texas we had snow, or ice on the ground just the other day. It almost lasted a full 24 hours too!

We got a little ice on the roads in the central area of the state, but it didn't last. It's amazing how much more winter precip. you guys get than what we do considering the small distance apart.

Yeah, it is crazy, just seeing the difference here in the metroplex. North Texas weather is nuts. I don't think I will ever get used to it.

Up here in Dallas, Texas we had snow, or ice on the ground just the other day. It almost lasted a full 24 hours too!

One problem with all this, in a lot of RPG's, the weight of a lot of items is a lot higher than it should be. I don't have my copy of the beta with me, so I can't account for that in Pathfinder, but, 3.5 was very bad about that.

I believe the proper term for armor would be chausses. LIkewise, only the shoulders and lower arms are covered by slots, so one could add the rerebrace.

Chausses are also a term for medieval pants, not just armor. Mens lower body covering was in 3 pieces, historically. Braes, made of linen and resembling boxer shorts, and a pair of chausses, which are pulled up like sleeves on the legs (they include feet) and tied at the waist. Tunics of the period were long enough the braes are hidden.

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