My armor list for IH

[Hurlbut]

Heya, I made this list as diverse as possible so that players in my game could make their home regions more unique. What I need help with is whenever I am right to use DR vulnerability to damage type and whenever the armors need a specific vulnerable assigned to it or be changed.

Armor / Cost / DR / Max Dex Bonus / ACP / Weight (M)
**Light Armor					
Wicker	                 1 gp	1/	                 5	0	5
Padded	                 5 gp	1/-	                 8	0	10
Bark	                   5 gp	2/Slashing	         5	-2	15
Cord	                  15 gp	2/Bludgeoning	         5	-1	15
Leather	                10 gp	2/Piercing	         6	0	15
Bone	                  20 gp	3/Bludgeoning	         4	-3	20
Wood	                  15 gp	3/	                 4	-3	15
Studded Leather	         25 gp	3/Piercing	        5	-1	20
Leather Scale	         35 gp  3/	                 6	-2	20
Chain shirt	        100 gp	4/Piercing	        4	-2	25
**Medium Armor					
Hide	                 15 gp	3/Piercing	        4	-3	25
Brigandine	         30 gp	4/	                2	-5	40
Scale mail	         50 gp	4/	                3	-4	30
Ring	                 75 gp	4/	                4	-3	35
Chainmail	        150 gp	5/	                2	-5	40
Lamellar	        150 gp	5/Piercing	        3	-4	35
Breastplate	        200 gp	5/	                3	-4	30
**Heavy Armor					
Splint mail	        200 gp	6/Piercing	        0	-7	45
Banded mail	        250 gp	6/Bludgeoning	        1	-6	35
Half-plate	        600 gp	7/Bludgeoning	        0	-7	50
Full plate	       1200 gp  8/Bludgeoning	        1	-6	50
Heavy plate	       2000 gp 	9/	                 0	-8	100

[El Jaspero, the Pirate King]

You're using static DR? If so, these are quite a bit stronger than the core IH armors, though I suppose the damage vulnerabilities do limit that somewhat.

I'm curious why you feel the need for the damage vulerabilities in the first place though. It seems like it just adds another layer of bookkeeping, not to mention that apparently every upper-level character would be wielding a greatclub.

[Hurlbut]

You're using static DR? If so, these are quite a bit stronger than the core IH armors, though I suppose the damage vulnerabilities do limit that somewhat.

I'm curious why you feel the need for the damage vulerabilities in the first place though. It seems like it just adds another layer of bookkeeping, not to mention that apparently every upper-level character would be wielding a greatclub.

Certain armours do protect very well against specific damage types, the vulnerabilities list what they do not protect very well against.

You could have a warhammer, a maul, a greathammer, what not. Plated knights did carried warhammers so they could damaged each other better.

[Fax Celestis]

I would venture to remove the vulnerabilities, and make it so that whenever the target it damaged by an armor that owuld have a specific vulnerability, that it damages the user and the armor.

[Hurlbut]

whenever the target it damaged by an armor that owuld have a specific vulnerability, that it damages the user and the armor.

Huh?

[El Jaspero, the Pirate King]

Certain armours do protect very well against specific damage types, the vulnerabilities list what they do not protect very well against.

You could have a warhammer, a maul, a greathammer, what not. Plated knights did carried warhammers so they could damaged each other better.

Sorry if I was unclear; I don't disagree with you that some armors work better against some weapons types than others. I just wonder if it needlessly complicates things.

[Fax Celestis]

Huh?

Let me try again: keep the vulnerability types, but make them so that instead of having the damage cut through into the wearer, have the damage the armor would prevent instead damage the armor.

[El Jaspero, the Pirate King]

Let me try again: keep the vulnerability types, but make them so that instead of having the damage cut through into the wearer, have the damage the armor would prevent instead damage the armor.

Oof! That's even more bookkeeping in what's supposed to be a fast and furious combat system, not to mention that people would need to replace their armor on a monthly basis.

[TheOOB]

Organizing that list into a table could greatly help it's readibility. DR armor is generally a very poor idea because Damage Reduction scales very very poorly. 1 point of AC is just as good now as it is 10 levels from now because every point of AC reduces damage taken by 5%, no matter how powerful the attack is (assuming their Atk Bonus isn't 20 higher then your AC that is). By the time you hit level 10 or so a DR of 1 is only a small portion of any attack, to the point of being meaningless.

[Hurlbut]

Organizing that list into a table could greatly help it's readibility. DR armor is generally a very poor idea because Damage Reduction scales very very poorly. 1 point of AC is just as good now as it is 10 levels from now because every point of AC reduces damage taken by 5%, no matter how powerful the attack is (assuming their Atk Bonus isn't 20 higher then your AC that is). By the time you hit level 10 or so a DR of 1 is only a small portion of any attack, to the point of being meaningless.

The IH use the DR as the primary system for the armor, rather than have the armor give AC bonus.