From:	Airwasp <Airwasp@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: A question of Grand Scale
Date:	Sun, 10 May 1998 07:53:54 EDT

In a message dated 5/10/98 6:19:45 AM !!!First Boot!!!, grota@*********.COM
writes:

> A team of PCs, but some miracle, killed an Eastern Dragon when the
> rigger crashed their transport plane into its head. The PCs proceeded to
> loot the corpse, taking blood, claws, etc from the corpse.
> Okay, so the question is this. Several PCs managed to get a hold of a
> bunch of scales. If you were to make a plated vest out of the scales,
> what would its rating be? I checked the critter table, and according to
> that, Eastern Dragons have a composite natural armor of 8. So would a
> vest made from said critter's scales be 8/8? Or less?

Jett, this is not a flame question, but it is a good one none-the-less. It
would not have an armor rating of 8/8 as the armor rating has other factors in
it besides what the skin is made of. What I would do is treat it as something
along the lines of Partial and Full Armor (depending on the coverage), but
perhaps let the armor retain the properties of the Hardened Armor most dragons
have for a couple of months (no more than 3-4, IMHO).

Mike