Armor – Clothes, Barding and Accessories 1 page

A decent set of armored barding can save your life.

In Fallout: Equestria RPG, bardings generally cover the torso and all four limbs unless otherwise noted. Bardings and clothing only provide the listed DT bonus (that’s Damage Threshold – it represents the amount of damage it takes to overcome armor and deal damage to the thing wearing it), if any, to those areas which they actually cover, while headgear will always provide DT to the head. Most armor will not cover the wings, and most helmets and other headgear will not cover the character’s horn unless specially designed or modified (see the modifying armor sub-header later in this section) to do so. Powered armor and armored helmets will almost never make allowances for characters with a horn. Whether or not a set of clothes or barding covers specific areas (other than those generally assumed) is listed in the effects column.

For bipedal creatures, these clothes and armors are interchangeable – simply note that the rear legs correspond to the legs and that the forelegs correspond to the arms. Armor will need to be modified to fit any creature whose anatomy it wasn’t initially designed for – see the appropriate rules under the armor modification sub-header later in this chapter.

Values may fluctuate based on character size – armor and clothing for bipedal or Large characters is considerably rarer, and can be considered to cost 1.5x as much if it’s available at all. Armor for smaller characters (but not clothing) is also much rarer, and the value of it is increased (to 1.5x as much). Such armor is absolutely essential for characters with Pipsqueak or Young.

Characters can wear up to one layer of clothing or barding from each of the four categories (clothes, light, medium and heavy) at any point in time. Accessories are not limited, so long as they can reasonably occupy different locations on your character, though only one helmet can be worn one at a time. Wearing more than one layer of clothing or barding at a time grants a -1 penalty to AGI for each additional layer after your base layer. Wearing more than 2 layers at a time grants a -1 penalty to STR for each layer after the second.

Battle saddles (the next section) can only be worn one at a time; they are functionally a type of accessory.

* IFF tags are not always present, and are usually attached to a nametag, ID badge, or keycard that may not be part of the barding or clothing.

* IFF tags are not always present, and are usually attached to a nametag, ID badge, or keycard that may not be part of the barding or clothing.

Devices that generate a stealth field render their wearer invisible while that field is maintained. If the wearer maintains sneaking posture and speed, they receive the sneak bonus to opposed rolls; if they do not, enemies take the stealth field as an MFD step penalty to PER rolls to notice them. Penalties to sneak for the invisible character translate directly into bonuses for those making PER rolls against a stealth field.

Characters and creatures under the effects of a magically-induced stealth field are not visible consistently on EFS; they show up as ‘ghosts’, which flicker in and out seemingly at random.

Modifying Armor

Armor can be modified to fit other sizes and configurations of creatures (or to change the body-configuration of a set of armor) using the repair skill. This is required to make a set of armor fit any character it wasn’t originally designed for (large ponies can’t fit into a young character’s barding; Griffins and Hellhounds can’t use Equine bardings, vice versa, etc.).

It takes a repair roll MFD ¾, about 10% of the armor’s value in materials (or another set of similar armor – this is not necessary if you’re making the armor smaller) and 1d4 days to modify armor in this way. Critical successes can accomplish this task overnight, failures add 1d4 days, and critical failures ruin the armor being modified.

Cosmetic alterations such as adding leg pockets only require suitable materials – a needle, thread, and whatever the armor is made of (leather or cloth, usually – and a repair roll MFD 1. Check out the miscellaneous items list at the end of this chapter). Depending on the size of the modification, it can take anywhere from half an hour to a few days. Powered armors cannot be modified in this manner, except to change their color schemes; you can’t sew extra pockets into metal plate.

Repairing armor is covered under the armor degradation rules in the combat section.

Don’t forget, fillies and gentlecolts – armor degrades! Every time your armor’s DT is exceeded by damage, it degrades by 1 point. If it hits 0, you can consider it broken! When DT is reduced to 0 and the armor is destroyed, the effects of that armor are still granted until the armor is removed or replaced. It is still considered worn (and thus still takes up a spot on your character) until removed.

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 935