| Azothath |
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Armor: Crok Leather
Description:
We turn the toughest of hide into luxurious armor suitable for upscale adventuring. Choosing the finest cuts of tanned pliant(non-boiled) leathers (elephant, rhino, crocodile, frilled lizard) we cover vital and low movement areas for your protection. The sections are secured to a linen(flax), kuzufu(kudzu), or silk(+10gp) tailored undergarment. We buff and polish the sections to a high shine. It is an exceptionally beautiful treatment when purchased with masterwork quality for maximum protection with minimal hindrance to movement.
Type: armor, lgt; slot: armor
Cost: 65 gp; Wt: 10 lbs.
Armor Bonus: +1; Max Dex Bonus: +7; Armor Check Penalty: -1
Arcane Spell Failure: 0%; Speed: sz Med 30 ft./ sz Sml 20 ft. Run: ×4
Matl: cloth and leather; Hrd:2; HP:4
Note: -1 AC vs Bludgeoning only attacks.
by Azothath
| Pizza Lord |
Maybe I am misunderstanding the purpose of the armor (in-game). Normal leather is 10 gp and gives +2 AC at all times with a –1 penalty to some checks and a +6 max Dex bonus.
Crok leather (love the name), is 65 gp (6x more, 7x if you get silk lining, which seems to just be an RP choice, since... a player can always get silk underclothes or padding), and gives only a +1 AC bonus with a 0 bonus, absolutely no protection, against bludgeoning attacks, which can even include claw and bite attacks because of wording.
I get that maybe this process is just super-thinning of leather, but the description really doesn't give the reader that impression. It uses words like 'the toughest of hide' and from animals with notoriously thick hides (elephants, rhinos, gators). The reader has no correlation to why this is 6–7 times more expensive to do almost universally worse.
The lack of 10% spell failure is good, but for the few characters where that's an issue, either their class already negates light armor penalty or, the use mage armor anyway. And the skill check penalty is only a minor improvement on skill checks they likely suck at anyway. Add to the fact that this doesn't even appear to be considered masterwork (since you mention having to pair it with MW quality, I just don't see it making sense game-wise except as a brand-name or RP aspect. Any reasonable person (game-wise or not) is just going to go for MW leather and say it looks fantastic because they paid 150 (160 total) for it.
It's very creative though, but I fail to see the purpose to it other than being a little lighter.
| Azothath |
I wrote the description from the perspective of a high-end salesman. Picture golden age amazonians who want armor with a touch of class in a bespoke shop ... it's best to let the reader's mind fill in the details.
Its purpose is to offer a fashionable RP ASF 0% non-metallic armor. Sure, taking out the hard plates means the bludgeoning gets through but that's what enhancements are for.
Agilis was posted as a practical scalable option (to the PPC Adventurer's Armory entry and Agile breastplate).
I've made about 6 other armors spanning the lgt-med price range and defined about 60+ materials like Hagcloth.
This description was just more fun than Reed Armatura Type: lgt (no prfc req'd); Slot: armor.
I did think about reducing the weight of Crok Leather to 8lbs.