[LT] Shoes and Boots

[Trachmyr]

Originally Posted by Icelander

But what's the weight for Light Leather?

If we want to design custom clothing made from it, one that happens to protect from abrasions, it would be nice to have a base weight to plug into the percentages of the body in the armour section.

I've asked this before, and the response has always been something on the order of "Light Leather is not armor so it does not need a table entry". Really Frusterating! Ok, so it's not on the table... but how about pitching a weight to us anyways! I would think they had to have one to base other items on.

Trying to reverse engineer the weight, light leather is supposed to be equivalent to Heavy Clothing (they both can get DR1 vs. cut only). Heavy Clothing is supposed to be 8 pounds (sans footwear).... but that's for a full set. Assuming that heavy clothing is supposed to cover Torso, Legs, Arms... that yelds 8/2.5... which gives an ugly number. Round down to 3 pounds, this seems fair is you assume that heavy clothing also includes light gloves, a scarf and some kind of light cap.

As for cost, you'll have to adopt a feel good number... as Heavy Clothing cost is based on Cost of Living. If you took 30% of cost of living for status 0, then divided by 2.5 (or 2.666), you'll arrive at $67.5-$72. However, the cost of Heavy Clothing is supposed to include the cost of footwear and accessories. If one just assumes boots, then ((30% of CoL forstatus 0 - $80)/2.666) = $37.5. One could also base it on Status -1 and gain a dollar figure equal to 1/2 or less of these amounts. Personally I set it at $30 for any Leather or Cloth that gives DR1 vs. Cut only.


As a side note, for leather that gives DR 1 (-1 vs. Impaling), I set the numbers at $40 & 6lbs.