Armorsmithing and size

Villis · Post by **Villis** » Sat May 01, 2004 1:29 am

I recently was pondering something in game, and it made me wonder. So far all the armor my character makes appears to be for the same size character as myself. I can understand familiarizing oneself with the armor of your own race, but I would think it would not be beyond an armorsmith to make armor for sizes near to his own. Thus a dwarf could make armor for a human, etc.

Perhaps similar to the resize command at existing shops, a smith could size the armor he's created with a chance of deteriorating it. Or, having the option of including size when smithing it.

Thoughts?

Nysan · Post by **Nysan** » Sat May 01, 2004 7:05 pm

Armor and weapons are already resizable at certain smith shops around the realms, PC made or otherwise.

N.R.

Belose · Post by **Belose** » Mon May 03, 2004 5:21 pm

I think the point being is that an armouror should be able to make armor for the size of customers he's going to get... if they haven't seen any dwarfs, then they might not know how, but they could STILL make armor for short people.....if you get my drift. I think a good armouror would be able to make armor for ANY size... even giants, if they had enough metal..hehehe....I think it's like a default setting, probably, which makes it at your race's body size.. which I think is wrong, simply cause you get so many people, no matter what race, in different sizes... Maybe it would fall under a customizable thing, because if you just walk into a STORE to buy off the shelf, then you get what you buy and have to get it resized, but if you ASK someone to make some, it should be in your size. Hope that makes sense..

Villis · Post by **Villis** » Mon May 03, 2004 6:05 pm

Yes, that was basically my point. The idea here is, say you go to NPC Smith in Waterdeep he'll by default sell you a suit of armor of probably human size. If PC is a gnome say, it'll be too big. Currently you can ask the NPC smith to resize it and pay some money, voila! Smaller armor.

If a PC who is a armorsmith by trade is put in the same situation, regardless of skill, he can't make a suit of armor fit anyone except people in the same body size as their own.

My suggestion is to have an additional aspect of armorsmithing (perhaps a separate quest to learn) how to resize things and/or smith armor of different sizes. Perhaps there would be a modifier for creating armors outside of the PC smith's normal size, or at least too far beyond. Just a few additional thoughts.

Algon · Post by **Algon** » Mon May 03, 2004 6:25 pm

I may be wrong here, but if you resize an object does it not allow that object to get damaged easier? If you are taking orders for a suit of armor and it is for say a halfling, I would not pay for something that has been resized and weakened. A good smith should be able to perfictly fit his customers. Thus the reason that such an art is his trade. I belive it would be good when you smith something it could go like this:

Smith (Breastplate) (halfling)

That way you can size the object at the time of smithing and not subject it to the rigors of resizing.

Gwain · Post by **Gwain** » Mon May 03, 2004 7:03 pm

Actually if an object is sized properly for the person wearing it it will be damaged less than something too big or small for you to wear.