Drow Chainmail

Zilvryn · Post by **Zilvryn** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:35 pm

Does Drow Chain act like elven chainmail and not have the armour penalty of normal chainmail?

Legault · Post by **Legault** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:51 am

Not really sure, I have heard that [color=darkred][/color]Drow chainmail gets damaged in the sunlight, Thats the only penalty that I know of

:P

Zilvryn · Post by **Zilvryn** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:16 am

drow eq used to get damaged in 2e but thats been taken out in 3e...

Cyric · Post by **Cyric** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:12 am

Honestly, this game is a hybrid of 2e and 3e. If you'll notice, there is no multiclassing in this game, yet there are other 3e aspects pertaining to classes.

I'd have to look at the actual object coding of the drow chainmail to see if it is classified as a "chainmail" or not. And right now, I don't have the access to the game =\

Zilvryn · Post by **Zilvryn** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:35 am

no hurry, it was just for my curiosity anyway really

Legault · Post by **Legault** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:05 am

Better than Mithril?

Glim · Post by **Glim** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:50 pm

I was under the impression yes, though the drawbacks are it cant touch sunlight.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:05 pm

I was reading an interesting article about why this was taken out in the 3E system. I'll try to find a link if I can, but it was mainly about how this system made it so there was less treasure for the parties even though the enemies were tough. Though here, we can still at least sell the items.

Natasha

Zilvryn · Post by **Zilvryn** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:17 am

Seeing as the game is down, I thought I would fill my bored morning by searching for the articles mentioned by Natasha, alas, I could not find the one that I was thinking of, but the article below is a brief rant by one of the designers of the FRCS about why they changed the way adamantite worked in 3rd Ed...

Hopefully some people may find it answers some questions they might have, if not, heh, it filled 30mins or so of my morning trawling google

http://www.seankreynolds.com/rpgfiles/r ... decay.html

Leohand · Post by **Leohand** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:12 pm

I hope this is alright to say. Well, the reason that drow items ceased to degrade and their powers could come to the surface without deminishing is explained in the Liriel Baenre books by Elaine Cunningham. Liriel is Gromph Baenre's daughter, and a very talented wizard, but she wanted to see the surface AND keep her drow magics, so when she got ahold of a human artifact, she went on a quest for this cause. The artifact was more powerful then she realized, though, so when she completed her quest, as an unintended side effect her entire race was given that gift. So drow-made armor and such things ceased to degrade. Now, I'm not saying that it should be that way in this game or anything, just trying to help people understand. It's advisable that you read that trilogy if you have more questions.