you can decorate it to look very pretty.
Balancing Forge Armor/Weapon
Re: Balancing Forge Armor/Weapon
You cannot forge shields indeed.
Perhaps in previous editions, where shields provided actual ARMOR, it might have made sense to forge a shield (i.e. make it more solid to increase its armor rating) but now that shields no longer provide armor but instead increase your Physical Defense it would make little sense in my opinion since making the shield 'stronger' would not increase the likelihood to intercept a blow with it. The only way to make a shield better at intercepting a blow would be to make it physically bigger so... instead of forging it, just purchase a bigger shield.
Re: Balancing Forge Armor/Weapon
I would propose to be able to increase the shattering threshold. That IS related to stability and not as game breaking as another +Rank on physical defense.
A friend of mine proposed to be able to reduce armor penalties as Weaponsmith.
I like the idea of making an armor lighter instead of tougher. How about a conversion rate of 3:1, so 3 “increases” for 1 armor penalty removed?
The same rule you could apply to shields.
A friend of mine proposed to be able to reduce armor penalties as Weaponsmith.
I like the idea of making an armor lighter instead of tougher. How about a conversion rate of 3:1, so 3 “increases” for 1 armor penalty removed?
The same rule you could apply to shields.
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Re: Balancing Forge Armor/Weapon
you don't need a weaponsmith to have lighter armour, you can just wear lighter armour. you can trade in 15 points worth of enhancements to get crystal plate down to 0, or you can just wear leather armour to begin with and enhance it by +15 points and be 4 points ahead in the bargain. with regular plate armour, you would be 6 points ahead, an even better deal (presuming, of course, that you could even *find* a high enough circle weaponsmith).Lursi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:03 amI would propose to be able to increase the shattering threshold. That IS related to stability and not as game breaking as another +Rank on physical defense.
A friend of mine proposed to be able to reduce armor penalties as Weaponsmith.
I like the idea of making an armor lighter instead of tougher. How about a conversion rate of 3:1, so 3 “increases” for 1 armor penalty removed?
The same rule you could apply to shields.
Re: Balancing Forge Armor/Weapon
We houseruled that some armors are stackable (if it makes sence) like blood pebbles + fernweave.
But we also said that only one item can be upgraded.
If you go with the "Only the highest value counts"-rule, you still can "cheat".
Like a forged blood pebble with mystical armor +8 and a forged fernweave with physical armor +8
But we also said that only one item can be upgraded.
If you go with the "Only the highest value counts"-rule, you still can "cheat".
Like a forged blood pebble with mystical armor +8 and a forged fernweave with physical armor +8
Re: Balancing Forge Armor/Weapon
Na, cheating doesn't work... So if the player would do that, I'd count which total armor (pa+ma) is higher and only that one counts.
If that ruling (blood pebble under fernweave, only one is improved) works for your table, then that's cool. After all it's just a simple increase of all damage values by ~3-4 to bring balance back to RaW