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Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« on: July 15, 2010, 11:19:42 PM »
I wish to make a shield similar to that used by the charcter Thalia Grace in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series,basically it expands from a metal bracelet that is worn on the wrist

I'm thinking a simple craft check would be needed,but i'm not toally sure if thats all or which craft it would be.

Note this is for a 3.5 game
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2010, 12:43:48 AM »
Craft (Armorsmithing). Honestly, the collapsing ability could really just be played off as flavor.
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2010, 12:50:06 AM »
Quote from: Pan-Fried Hamster on July 16, 2010, 12:43:48 AM
Craft (Armorsmithing). Honestly, the collapsing ability could really just be played off as flavor.

but wouldn't it affect spot checks?
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2010, 05:46:00 AM »
You could treat the shield as a weapon(which it is with shield bash!) and put the Hideaway enhancement from MIC on it. It's a +2000gp weapon enchantment.
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2010, 07:19:29 PM »
Quote from: veekie on July 16, 2010, 05:46:00 AM
You could treat the shield as a weapon(which it is with shield bash!) and put the Hideaway enhancement from MIC on it. It's a +2000gp weapon enchantment.

the problem is we're playing a low to no magic setting,which is why i said non magical....

the current thinking for how  i'm going to do this is going be a combo of armorsmithing and possible knowledge of engineering...
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #5 on: July 16, 2010, 07:27:51 PM »
So make it a 2000g mechanical enhancement, with close to the same effect.
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2010, 07:44:40 PM »
Calling something magical non magical works with your DM?  Awesome.  You need nonmagical divine metamagic persist, divine power, etc.
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2010, 08:00:29 PM »
Enhancement not enchantment, so it probably wouldn't grant the same ability, but it would be a good starting point...
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2010, 09:14:00 PM »
Quote from: weenog on July 16, 2010, 07:44:40 PM
Calling something magical non magical works with your DM?  Awesome.  You need nonmagical divine metamagic persist, divine power, etc.

Its not magical at all atleast the way i'm tring to do it...I know in the book series its a magic item. I'm seeing if i can do it WITHOUT the use of any magic at all. which why currently i'm thinking its going to take a combo of armorsmithing and engineering...
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2010, 02:02:48 AM »
In that case you'd have to make it up, barring a direct conversion of the magic item or digging through d20 Future.

Or you could use an umbrella with reinforced materials.
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2010, 03:34:26 AM »
Quote from: veekie on July 17, 2010, 02:02:48 AM
In that case you'd have to make it up
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2010, 04:18:42 AM »
I think you could probably do it just with high enough sleight of hand and escape artist checks.
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2010, 02:18:26 PM »
from a real world eng. perspective you could probably pull it off with a bracer but not a bracelet. I could see the bracelet being the center of the shield with the outer portion being stacked on top of each other over the forearm. Then they could be allowed to swing around and lock into the shield form. It would be a lot like the oriental fans that stack on top of themselves. It would only require knowledge of ball bearings for the hub and springs for the opening and locking open.
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Re: Crafting a piece of non magical equipment
« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2010, 03:02:57 PM »
And probably some mechanical engineering to make sure the moving parts don't affect the shield's ability to deflect a blow.
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"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

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