Shields
 

I have a player that wants to make a tank type character with an iron shield. He saw the shields in basic, chose a large shield and upgraded it to an iron shield according to the rules on B 287. Another player of mine said that the same large shield in Low Tech pg 116 has different stats.

Which rules generally supersede which for a DF type game?

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The rules in the DFRPG are the rules for the DFRPG, so none of those.

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Look at the base shield weight, cost, etc. and see which book it best matches.

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See Adventurers p.107: a Dwarven Large Shield costs $450 and weighs 50 lbs.

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Dwarven is the way to go if you want to play the DFRPG way. Dwarven shields are made of iron. This is the same as Gurps:DF. If you're a Dwarf, they're cheaper too.

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This forum is for the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game, which is self-contained. No GURPS book is relevant here.

In the DFRPG, you get a metal shield by applying the dwarven, meteoric, or orichalcum modifier; see Adventurers, p. 107. Dwarven and meteoric shields are heavy and give +1 damage with bashes and rushes; orichalcum shields are light, and consequently give no damage bonus, but they make it dangerous to try a parry against a bash or rush because they're harder than everything but other orichalcum. All three are fireproof and all three are cheaper to make mirrored.

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But of course, staggeringly expensive. I'm curious about something - are all gear modifiers obvious? If I'm using an orichalum shield, is everyone aware it will likely break a weapon parrying it?

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I'd say if somebody knows what orichalcum is in the first place, it would be obvious on sight. You'd have to purposefully disguise it to fool anybody in the know.

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See Superior Weapons and Armor under Identifying the Good Stuff, Exploits p. 25.

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Well, enchantments included in Adventurers are commonly known, so I would expect the same would hold true for weapon quality. Whether they would recognize it is another matter.

Good point though that assumes investigating gear post-combat. I wonder if that would work in combat.