måndag 26 mars 2018

ACT: Mundane & Exotic Leather Armour

My first article in my series of Armour Customization Tables (ACT) begins with the kind of armour that any aspiring delver should look to for protection before she has looted her first dragon's hoard or troll's bounty and can look to more expensive gear: The Leather Armour. Mundane leather is the cheapest armour available and it is also usually available off the shelf unlike plate or mail armour which can take months to commission if your going for full body armour.
Example #1: Light Soft Leather Jerkin
DR 1 (0 vs pi, imp) Torso + arms to elbows (42%)
Cost $61, Wt 7,56lbs

Armour Types

Basically there are three types of armour:
Example #2: Medium Lamellar Leather Cuirass
DR 2 Chest + Abdomen (22%)
Cost $130, Wt 7,68 lbs
  • Soft Leather Skins: flexible cured but not hardened leather or fur, basically leather clothing. Has a DR penalty of -2 to pi and imp but flexible means it can be worn under or over other kinds of armour.
  • Hardened Leather: Cured leather skins handened and formed into plates. A little heavier than soft leather and isn't flexible but in return has no DR penalty. The hardening process makes it a little more expensive than soft leather aswell.
  • Leather Scale or Lamell: Hardened Leather punched into scales or lamells and then riveted or laced to itself or to a leather backing. Takes a lot more time to make than Hardened Leather due to all the riveting or lacing but results in a slightly tougher(Lesser Wt / DR) piece of armour.

Even to the weight of the end product differs, all three types of armour uses the same amount of raw materials which equals Wt of soft leather of the same DR and leather quality.

The making of all types of mundane and exotic leather except very fine exotic leather count as artistic work which means that Work Hours are halved as long as there are at least two leatherworkers present.

Leather Qualities

There are also three different qualities of leather:
Example #3: Fine Medium Hardened Leather Chestplate
DR 2 Chest + Abdomen (22%)
Cost $147, Wt 6,82 lbs
  • Mundane Leathers: Made from skins of Rabbit, Fox, Goat, Cow, Ox, Elk, Deer etc etc. Cheap and Regular quality armour made of mundane leathers is generally available off the shelves while an Apprentice (skill 9+) can make fine armour and a Journeyman (skill 12+) leatherworker will be able to make very fine quality. Price of cured mundane hides is $ 5 per lb.
  • Exotic Leathers: Extra tough hides from exotic animals like wyvern, dire wolf, owlbear, giant ape, frost snake etc, it's up to the GM to draw the line between what counts as regular or exotic. Exotic hides could also possess small bonuses like +1 poison resistance for wyvern skin or +1 DR against cold for frost snake etc. Exotic leather is generally not available in cheap quality due to the cost of the material. At least one kind of Regular quality exotic armour is usually available off the shelves  (GM’s decision what kind of exotic game there is to be found in the surroundings) while a Regular (skill 12+) leatherworker can make fine armour and a Master (skill 16+) leatherworker will be able to make very fine quality.Price of cured exotic hides varies around $ 20 per lb depending on availability of hides in the area.
  • Otherworldly Leathers: Skin or Scales of truly fantastic beings like demon skin, pegasus hide, astral tiger fur, mermaid scales, etc. On the high end we find hide and scale of dragons. These kinds of leathers always possess magical abilites on top of Damage Resistance (like DRx3 against fire for Dragonhide/scale). Otherworldly leathers will be elaborated in a later post.



Soft Leather Hide



Mundane Leather Exotic Leather

Bulk Protection Description Wt (lbs) Cost Wt (lbs) Cost Work (h) Work Qual
Light
Flexible
DR 1 Pelts from small animals or young medium sized ones 22,5 $ 96 16,9 - 52 Cheap
18,0 $ 146 13,5 $ 381 67 Regular
14,4 $ 278 10,8 $ 627 81 Fine
12,6 $ 560 9,5 $ 831 88 Very Fine
Medium
Flexible
DR 2 Pelts from medium sized animals or large young ones 38,8 $ 262 29,1 - 90 Cheap
31,0 $ 328 23,3 $ 967 116 Regular
24,8 $ 540 18,6 $ 1 329 139 Fine
21,7 $ 1 019 16,3 $ 1 648 152 Very Fine
Heavy
Flexible
DR 3 Pelts from Large animals 55,0 $ 646 41,3 - 128 Cheap
44,0 $ 686 33,0 $ 2 252 164 Regular
35,2 $ 943 26,4 $ 2 590 197 Fine
30,8 $ 1 600 23,1 $ 2 955 215 Very Fine


Traits Basically clothes made of leather or fur. Can be worn under (or over) other kinds of armour. DR -2 vs pi, imp

Example #4: Fine Light Soft Leather Hood
DR 1 (0 vs pi, imp) Skull, Neck and Shoulders (16%)
Cost $44.5, Wt 2,3 lbs
Example #5: Heavy Soft Leather Jacket
DR 3 (1 vs imp, pi) Torso, Shoulder, Upper Arm (39%)
Cost $268 Wt 17,16lbs







Hardened Leather Armor



Mundane Leather Exotic Leather

Bulk Protection Description Wt (lbs) Cost Wt (lbs) Cost Work (h) Work Qual
Light DR 1 Pelts from small animals or young medium sized ones 28,1 $ 108 21,1 - 68 Cheap
22,5 $ 176 16,9 $ 443 88 Regular
18,0 $ 352 13,5 $ 775 105 Fine
15,8 $ 722 11,8 $ 1 046 115 Very Fine
Medium DR 2 Pelts from medium sized animals or large young ones 48,4 $ 282 36,3 - 118 Cheap
38,8 $ 381 29,1 $ 1 073 151 Regular
31,0 $ 667 23,3 $ 1 583 181 Fine
27,1 $ 1 297 20,3 $ 2 019 198 Very Fine
Heavy DR 3 Hardened Leather Sheets from Large animals 68,8 $ 676 51,6 - 167 Cheap
55,0 $ 761 41,3 $ 2 403 214 Regular
44,0 $ 1 123 33,0 $ 2 951 257 Fine
38,5 $ 1 995 28,9 $ 3 482 281 Very Fine


Traits Hardening makes this type a little heavier and more timeconsuming (and thereby more expensive) to make than Soft Armor but has no DR penalties

Example #6: Very Fine Heavy Exotic Hardened Leather Chestpiece
with Shoulderpads, Vambraces & Tassets
DR 3 Torso, Arms except elbows and top of hand (52%)
Cost $1.811, Wt 15.0 lbs

Example #7: Fine Furlined Heavy Hardened Leather Tassets
DR 4 (3 vs pi, imp) Pelvis, Waist (12%)
Cost $168, Wt 7.0lbs





Leather Scale



Mundane Leather Exotic Leather

Bulk Protection Description Wt (lbs) Cost Wt (lbs) Cost Work (h) Work Qual
Light DR 1 Soft Scale or
Lamellar Leather
25,3 $ 185 19,0 - 171 Cheap
20,3 $ 388 15,2 $ 866 229 Regular
16,2 $ 914 12,2 $ 1 900 293 Fine
14,2 $ 2 336 10,6 $ 3 198 384 Very Fine
Medium DR 2 Hardened Lamellar
Leather (Laced)
or Hardened
Scale (Rivetted)
43,6 $ 330 32,7 - 246 Cheap
34,9 $ 589 26,2 $ 1 410 315 Regular
27,9 $ 1 227 20,9 $ 2 640 378 Fine
24,4 $ 2 562 18,3 $ 3 633 413 Very Fine
Heavy DR 3 Scale or lamell
riveted or sewn
(brigandine) to
hardened leather armor
61,9 $ 485 46,4 - 279 Cheap
49,5 $ 807 37,1 $ 2 053 391 Regular
39,6 $ 1 517 29,7 $ 3 386 447 Fine
34,7 $ 2 970 26,0 $ 4 371 469 Very Fine


Traits Scrap leather can be used for
making scale lowers material cost.
Rivetting or lacing is very
timeconsuming but yields a
lighter armour compared to
sheets of hardened leather.



Example #8: Heavy Scale Cuirass
DR 3 Torso, Groin, part of shoulders (35%)
Cost $282, Wt 17.3lbs
Example #9: Fine Light Scale Sleeves
DR 1 Arms (18%)
Cost $165, Wt 2.92lbs







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