Series Four: Weapons & Armor

Craftmanship

The world of Illfrost is a low magic campaign setting, where the superior craftsmanship of weapons and armor replace those you would normally find enchanted in most standard settings. This is not to say that there are no such items enchanted in Illfrost, just that they will be rare finds.

Steel Arms & Armor – As iron is a rare and precious commodity in Lannithir, steel weapons and protection are a luxury not afforded by most. In Tuanna and Draigtir, chain shirts are reserved for officers and commanders, while the common soldier wears hide armor at best. Only the upper echelons of nobility can afford to wear and maintain any armor of quality higher than chain, and plate mail will only be found on a king.

Type and Cost
Steel Armor……………………………………………….................Quintuple the listed price.
Steel Melee Weapons, One Handed……………………….... Double the listed price.
Steel Melee Weapons, Two Handed……………………….....Triple the listed price.
Steel Melee Weapons, Superior....………………………….....Quadruple the listed price.

Fur Lined Armor – For an additional 10% of the cost of the armor, a character can have his armor lined with fur. This will give the character a +2 to Endurance checks vs. cold; however it will add a -1 to the wearer's armor check penalty.


Masterwork Weapons – There is only one nation of men whose smiths are so skilled as to create masterwork weapons. That nation is Draigtir, and the weapons are forged from Draigensteel. Add 300gp to the base price.

• Draigensteel, +1 enhancement to attack rolls and damage rolls. Critical: +1 [W].

The Master Smiths of the Erdaim - There are no finer blades found on Olam than those crafted by the First Born. The guarded secrets of heat treatment, quenching, and tempering a sword have been passed down by the erdaim for three millennium. However, there are only a select few masters remaining who can still produce a weapon of quality as their ancestors did before them. The erdaim smith's regard swordcraft very highly, and it is said that they intertwine their blades with oaths of honor.

• Seysheth, +2 enhancement to attack rolls and damage rolls. Critical: +2 [W].

Maltoth – The greatest of all the erdaim smiths are the Malerdaim, and there is no better smith then their king, Maltoth. It was Maltoth who created the dark metal known as malsheth, which is remains hard even when crafted very thin.

• Malsheth, +3 enhancement to attack rolls and damage rolls. Critical +3 [W].