Making your own Leather or Insect Hide Armor?
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 3:34 am
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?
Thanks,
Nate
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?
Thanks,
Nate