Equipped Items Question

[aeronaut]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hackard

Unless you're in combat at the time, because you can't change the "in use" status of Items during combat, not even in this case.

Andrew, so does this mean that since the dwarf only armor (in this example) was equipped at the beginning of the fight, the character, now stripped of the dwarf race, still uses the armor for that fight and gets the bonus from it? Or does the armor remain equipped during the fight but confer no bonus since the character is no longer a dwarf?

I would assume that after the fight, the character must unequip the armor, and would have the option of equipping the human-only weapon.

And this issue would also apply to a character who voluntarily discarded a race during a combat. For example, fighting a +n vs. elves monster, ditching the elf race, but still having the bow with ribbons (elf only) equipped, etc.

Regards,
aeronaut