[LT/DF] Sets of Armor

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by pst

There are also some sets of armor in GURPS Lite. It's possible to reverse-engineer what parts they are made out of by using price and weight. I did that in http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...961#post202961 (Everyone told me I shouldn't bother trying to make cost and weight fit, but that was evidently how those special "Lite" armors were made. Then they are simplified in Lite by having the same DR everywhere.)

Another source for ready-made sets are in DF8, p.34, notes [1]--[8].

The problem with these, is that they're using the "unLow-teched" or "Unrevised" or whatever we're going to call them armor weights and costs - which are all being rewritten when LowTech comes out, weights are going down on metal armor while costs are going up and in some cases DRs are changing too IIRC. The rules being used here aren't the LowTech rules, they're the ones I put together a couple of years ago based on a lot of conversation here on the forums with Dan Howard, the LowTech author who did the armor rewrite, before LowTech was written.

Which means the folks using my revised weights and costs can't (and probably don't want to) use the weights and costs from Lite or DF8. But those are good for groups sticking with the Basic Set until Low Tech actually comes out!

[panton41]

Will Lite be updated to the Low-Tech "standard"? I've always assumed Lite was intended to be a simplification of the Basic Set and unless there's a Basic Set "Revised" I can't imagine Lite being updated for an ostensibly optional supplement.

[Snargash Moonclaw]

Originally Posted by Bruno

Oh crapballs, you're right. I suppose you could always replace it with four fur tunics.

Naw, leave it: Rhymes with "A chainmail bikini is plenty warm in a snowstorm."