Re: Armor proposal 1

["Rick Myers" <leviathan_60@hotmail.com>]

I agree with Jevan, either you use less steel to take advantage of it's 
strength...which yields lighter armor with the same DV's, or you use the 
same amount of a better metal and get better DV's for the same 
weight...but you shouldn't get both.  Currently, it's assumed that steel 
armor gives better DV's, which makes sense.  Steel working is a 
relatively uncommon skill on Jaern, so it would be far more common to 
find craftsmen using better materials in old, proven designs than in new 
innovations.

Rick

>I think that the assumption that less steel still protects better.  
That
>is bogus.  Steel plate is just harder, but not lighter.  If someone 
wanted
>to invent thin and light armor, it would have different DVs.
>
>Jevan
>
>On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Wright Frazier wrote:
>
>> > As for the movement issues that Wright is propossing to proposs I
>> > think you went a little overboard with the differences between
>> > Steel and Iron how about 5 feet differences?
>> > 
>> > 						Greg
>> 
>> 
>> Works for me.  Reason I did that is by using better materials you use
>> less of it and its lighter while still protecting better.  Hince why
>> the movement increases.  If folks want it limited to 5' boost, I'm
>> good with that, though I'd prefer 10'.  hell the stuff still costs
>> in the 10's of thousands of sp. =)
>> 
>> Wright
>> 
>> 
>
>


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