Making your own Leather or Insect Hide Armor?

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Making your own Leather or Insect Hide Armor?

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I scoured the skill list and can't quite find a skill that explicitly allows you to make your own armor out of natural materials. There is the Armorer skill under the apprenticeship of the same name, but that is a metalworking skill and not what I'm talking about.

My Pc has been doing this using the skill of Skin and Prepare Animal Hides and General Repair and Maintenance (which lets you patch armor). I think of the leftover parts of the giant mutant insects as the hard shell pieces that are left over after eating lobster or crab. Clean all the meat out, apply a preservative to prevent decay and viola, a nice piece of body armor. Granted it's not easy to fix once you start losing SDC (we've been using left over bits of previously bashed armor to patch it up.) but it beats fighting without protection.

What are your thoughts and or solutions to this?

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Re: Making your own Leather or Insect Hide Armor?

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Really? No one has anything to say? Am I being shunned?
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Re: Making your own Leather or Insect Hide Armor?

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I just let a PC do this what I ruled is it has -2 from its Natural AR and 1/4 S.D.C., my cowboy is loving his ant armor
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Seeing as how the majority of my random wilderness encounters have been giant insects, armor and spear heads made from dead giant beetles is invaluable. I've fought npc's to the death over my armor... and also because they looked tasty.
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Re: Making your own Leather or Insect Hide Armor?

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Since I default to TMNT&OS and not the new AtB, I would just let a sufficiently "woodsy" character make the armor. Wilderness Survival, or Hunting would work for me.
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Re: Making your own Leather or Insect Hide Armor?

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TMNT is a "modern" setting. you should be able to buy conventional armor or loot it off of dead npc's. that's the beauty of a headshot. it only ruins the helmet.
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