[CONAN] Does It Fit?

[Supplement Four]

Is there a quickie rule anywhere that I can use to determine whether found armor on dead foes will fit a character well if he scavages some?

And, realistically, how likely is armor to fit another person? I would think that the "stiffer" armor is, the more likely it will not fit another warrior. For example, leather is much more likely to fit someone else than plate.

In my game, I used a quicky, simple rule that I made up on the spot, though I'm not happy with it. I basically compared the two characters, the dead guy and the PC, looking at the physical stats of each, adding the variance together to come up with a d20 target number. The PC having a lower stat reduced the target, making the armor "big". If the PC had a stat that was higher than the deceased, then that would make the armor tight.

A quick comparison and a quick d20 roll determined whether the armor could would fit.

As I said, I'm not that happy with it. It's just something I made up on the fly.




So, I'm looking for a quickie rule someplace that I can use. I need to consider damage to the armor, too. There may be a hole in it.

Any direction to point me at?

 

[Cheomesh]

Hasn't come up in my games yet. I think there is a rule regarding resizing in the main rule book, but I can't look it up at the moment. There was, in the later middle ages, a thing called munitions armour: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munition_armour

Basically it was a mass produced bit of armor, typically on contract for some arsenal. If my character is of average size for someone from the creator's region, it's a go. If he's smaller or larger, there's some sizing issues that might come up. Not an expert on the whole Hyborian Age, but Gunderland, the Bossonian Marches and Corinth might be likely places in the West for this kind of armor. Then again, the fact that armor shops exist at all selling things like plate means it's probably fairly widespread.

M.

 

[Jeraa]

Armor was rarely created to fit a single person. Even the types that were created like that, usually included buckle and straps so it could be adjusted to fit someone else.

By the rules, every suit of armor will fit any character of the same size. Except plate armor, which says:

There is a straight 20% chance that any given suit will almost fit a particular character, in which case it can be worn but with a maximum Dex bonus of +0. A suit that almost fits in this manner can be re-sized to fit the character perfectly, as though it were made-to-measure. This takes 1d4 weeks and costs 500 sp per week.

Plate armor is the only type in the rules designed for a specific person.