The Quintessential Barbarian

The Quintessential Barbarian cover

Author	Robert Schwalb
Series	Quintessential Series
Publisher	Mongoose Publishing
Publish date	2003
Pages	128
ISBN	1-903980-92-5
OGL Section 15	qbbn

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Iron Armour

Iron armour is of a high quality, but it is inferior to the armour protection of steel. While it offers the same armour bonus as steel, it is heavier and generally slows movement. The key benefit to iron armour is price. In almost every other way, iron armour confers the same benefits as steel armour.

Available Armour: Studded leather, chain shirt, scale mail, chain mail, breastplate, splint mail, banded mail, half-plate and full plate.
Special Rules: Neglected weapons, weapons not frequently oiled and sharpened, deteriorate. For every week of neglect, the armour’s status worsens. There are three levels of deterioration. They and their modifiers, are as follows.

Tarnished: There is no modifier for tarnished armour.
Corroded: Confers a -1 penalty to the armour bonus and increases the armour check penalty by 1.
Rusted: Armour bonus further reduced by -1, armour check penalty reduced by 1 and the Maximum Dexterity is reduced by 1.

Beyond the rusted stage, the armour is worthless. Maintaining armour requires a Craft (armoursmithing) check against a DC 10 every week. Failure indicates the armour worsens to the first category. Not attempting the Craft check is a failed attempt. Repairing neglected armour is only possible in the Corroded and Dulled Stages. Simply cleaning up the armour after it has deteriorated requires a Craft (armoursmithing) check against a DC 15. Failure results in no change in the armour’s status; it is neither improved nor worsened. A check failed by 5 or more means the armour worsens by one stage.

Armour Material	Cost	Armour Bonus Modifier	Max Dex Modifier	ACP Modifier	ASF Modifier	Speed (30 ft/20 ft)	Weight Change
Iron	-20%	0	0	0	0	- / -	+20%