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Old May 3rd, 2007, 02:41 PM
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Default Badger\'s really nuts over this scale-mail thing.

It's definitely a big change. A good change? definitely!

Ideally-concerning the "missles breaking glamour" question: I think it should be range-based. Like, at greater than 30 simulated yards an arrow can hit and do damage but doesn't break the glamour, while at less than 30 simulated yards it does. That way, you can't take away all of Helheim's edge in a battle immediately, just by massing longbows.

I think it's important to leave them an "out" of this nature, just because it encourages a careful strategy when using them or fighting against them, rather than simply punishing them for having been too powerful for too long.

As per the resource cost for light scale-mail: I'd just like to have a few (too many) words on that, a bit off-topic, though it may be.

If you want to increase the resource-cost for light scale-mail, that's fine, I don't have a problem with that, but please, please, please! If you're going to do that, please give scale-mail of comparable quality a significant protection bonus over chainmail. Scale-mail is just better. High quality scale-mail is a LOT better.

The only "expert" who ever thought any differently was, apparently, Gary Gygax, and this is a sad, misguided, pitiful remnant of D&D and before that, Tolkien, and before that, the western world's psychological superiority complex, furthered by the kind of wishful thinkers who wanted to believe chainmail-which they viewed as European, was better than scalemail-which they viewed as Middle-Eastern. It is, indeed, a conspiracy!

Yes, I am very much a scale mail FANATIC.
But, atleast, I'm on the side of the facts.

If you still don't agree about scalemail, consider that a suit of scalemail armour can incorporate chainmail mesh into the design-for added flexibility and increased protection over vulnerable spots-and still be scalemail armour.

If you're still not convinced...well...you wouldn't want me to come to your house and pass out flyers, now, would you?
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