January 18, 2012

Making do with Limited Resources

The people of Ig cannot secure a steady supply of metals due to monsters encroaching on their mines. They have learned to make do with other resources. The warriors are as likely to wield a warpick fashioned from beetle horn and crocodile skin armor as iron chainmail and a sword. The rule of cool absolutely necessary.

When rolling up a random item from a hoard or merchant roll on these charts to give the object some Iglandish flavor.

WEAPON MATERIALS
Roll 1d12 and consult below, re-roll nonsense:
1- Tortoise Shell
2- Obsidian
3- Insect Carapace
4 - Insect Mandible
5- Wood
6- Ceramic
7- Giant Tooth
8- Bone
9- Flint
10- Bronze
11- Iron
12- Silver

ARMOR MATERIALS
Depending on the class of armor found/purchased, roll on the appropriate table below:
Padded
1- Fur
2- Quilt
3- Paper
4- Mothwing

Leather (or Hide, if boiled)
1- Cowhide
2- Buffalo
3- Lizard
4- Buckskin
5- Snakeskin
6- Bearskin
7- Eel skin
8- Rhinoceros
9- Hippo
10- Spider Carapace
11- Sharkskin
12- Thick Paper

Studded leather (Stud materials)
1- Bone
2- Tortoise Shell
3- Stone chip
4- Beetle horn
5- Cockroach
6- Bronze
7- Horn
8- Iron

Scale mail (Scale Materials)
1- Crocodile skin
2- Stone
3- Bone
4- Insect Carapace
5- Wood
6- Scarab
7- Iron
8- Bronze

Chainmail
1- Bamboo
2- Rattan
3- Bone Splintmail
4- Giant Stag Beetle Carapace
5- Bronze
6- Iron

Banded mail
1- Giant Turtle Shell
2- Giant Centipede Carapace
3- Dwarf Ceramic
4- Bone
5- Bronze
6- Iron

Half-plate
1- Ironback Carapace (Elf-make only)
2- Dwarven Ceramic (Dwarf-make only)
3- Bronze
4- Iron

Full plate
1- Ironback Carapace (Elf-make only)
2- Dwarven Ceramic (Dwarf-make only)
3- Bronze
4- Iron

Shield
1 - Turtle shell
2- Wood
3- Hide (roll on leather table)
4- Bamboo
5- Bone
6- Trilobite
7- Ironback Carapace (Elf-make only)
8- Dwarven Ceramic (Dwarf-make only)
9- Bronze
10- Iron

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