Drakolin Bone/Chitin Armor

[Stranger]

My character seems to have a thing for trying to kill drakolins. What would guys you think about trying to craft armor out of their bones?

I imagine it would be weaker than plate armor but much heavier than chain armor. It might even be something that would be easier for those fancy magic type people to channel through. (Similar to rigid leather.) Historically bone armor has been made but since the majority of R/L bones are small they had to be tied together. Drakolin bones though, I would imagine would be much tougher and larger so that one could chisel away large plate pieces which could then be fashioned into all sort of stuff.

[Jaster]

Or bowtruckle carapace armor.

[Elystole]

I was thinking it would be nice to be able to descale drakolin scales like they do with snakes and crocodiles to get skins to make soft and rigid leather goods.

[Jaster]

I was thinking it would be nice to be able to descale drakolin scales like they do with snakes and crocodiles to get skins to make soft and rigid leather goods.

I thought that was already possible, but maybe that was just a dream I had once.

[Stranger]

If that could be done, I would personally see to it that Jaster had [a mighty bowtruckle butt greathelm with dual feathers] made JUST for him.

[Makkah]

I was thinking it would be nice to be able to descale drakolin scales like they do with snakes and crocodiles to get skins to make soft and rigid leather goods.

I thought that was already possible, but maybe that was just a dream I had once.

It is. You can already make drakolin leather; I helped a certain guy do it a couple of years ago.

I think the bone ideas is super-cool, but one thing strikes me as odd. Don't lizards have fairly thin bones? Kinda a precursor to their evolution to birds, etc. Just something I always assumed.

[Vitello]

Reality is selective in a game.

[Vertebrate]

I like turtles


























(for armor made of shell for wizards)

[Rias]

The problem with drakolin bone armor being comparable to plate is that the bone density and toughness would then presumably be comparable to metal, and correspondingly, channeling encumbrance ratings. Another problem is that I don't want heavier metal armors obsoleted by a superior armor that can be crafted and "farmed". Having some kind of bone brigandine/splint armor with some minor benefits over the common stuff would be fun, but it wouldn't be on the order of "lighter armor as far as enumbrance/channeling, but heavier armor as far as protection". That would just throw off the intended balance too much.

[Stranger]

Fair enough, thanks for the reply.