04-30-2014, 05:45 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
If people were really interested in reducing the time it takes to don low-tech armour what (if anything, but presumably they can get some amount of improvement) could they do without requiring major technological developments?
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04-30-2014, 06:25 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Maitland, NSW, Australia
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Re: Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
The don times for most of the items in LT are already way too low. It was a compromise between gameability and reality.
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04-30-2014, 09:31 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Re: Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
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05-01-2014, 01:07 AM | #4 |
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Caxias do Sul, Brazil
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Re: Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
Perk:
Fast Donner: You can put on your armor in half the usual time.
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05-01-2014, 01:23 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Re: Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
I thought Fast Donner reduced the time it took to eat your fellow party members.
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05-01-2014, 01:44 AM | #6 |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Maitland, NSW, Australia
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Re: Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
About 15 mins for plate harness and a lot more if you try it by yourself.
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05-01-2014, 02:02 AM | #7 |
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Central Europe
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Re: Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
They wear an armoured coat and a simple helmet. The later takes a few seconds to put on, and they can belt or buckle the coat as they ride or run. Anything with more pieces or which has to be laced or buckled in place is out.
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05-01-2014, 09:13 AM | #8 |
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Re: Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
What I'm interested in is how much you could improve each kind of armour, I guess with a fine: quick donning option, compared to normal examples. How much can you optimize one armoured coat compared to the next?
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05-01-2014, 09:37 AM | #9 | |
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Brighton
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Re: Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
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Fastening at the front is easy, but then you have this great big potential chink to your front. Fastenings at the back remove this issue, but are functionally impossible for someone to do by them selves Loose over the head tunics, smocks etc are quick, but by their very nature preclude being well fitted which while annoying for ordinary clothes, is uncomfortable and tiring for anything with DR points. The armourer/tailor who comes up with mediaeval velcro or even zips will do well. |
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05-01-2014, 09:55 AM | #10 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Re: Reducing Low-Tech Armour Don Times
Make a DX-based Amoury (Body Armor) roll at a penalty according to Time Spent on p.B346.
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