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tebryn14
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 Posted - 02 Mar 2005 : 02:19:00
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What do we know about this powerful magical item. I know that Drizzt replaces his armor with it, but is it more powerful than his armor, and is it now his preferred defensive piece. The thing is, there is a quote from the Two Swords, page 324 "Not the shirt he had taken from the dead dark elf, not even the finest suit of Bruenor's best mithral stock would save him from being cloven in half." This seems to suggest that the armor is better, but...
BTW, well met. I am new here, though I like to think I have a presence on the Wizards boards, where I run a deity statting thread for FR (and Planescape).
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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Posted - 02 Mar 2005 : 02:24:39
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Well met. :)
I assume the shirt is more powerful than Drizzt's old armor, but I don't think there are any official stats for it yet. :) |
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DDH_101
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 02 Mar 2005 : 03:52:37
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| tebryn, Drizzt doesn't replace his armour with the shirt. He wears it underneath his mithril chainmail as extra protection. Besides, I don't think a silk shirt, no matter how enchanted, would provide as good protection as actual armour against something like a warhammer's blow to the ribs. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Mar 2005 : 03:45:57
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You might be right, but didn't Drizzt's armor get rusted (or busted up or something) which lead to him taking it off and replacing it when he found the shirt? I could have remembered it wrongly, but Drizzt's armor needed repairing, and that was back when he was separated from his friends.
Of course, his armor is probably fixed by now. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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Kentinal
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Mar 2005 : 04:55:19
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In real world silk armor was useful in that arrows or bolts could be slid though with less damage (of course that infers the missle did not kill on impact).
As for the Magical Item I do not know all its ability, though it as reasonable to acept that the amount carried is lower by perhaps 5 Kg |
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Freakboy
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Posted - 03 Mar 2005 : 21:11:24
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| The D&D game stats for the Spidersilk Shirt are in the Forgotten Realms Product "Underdark". The specific entry can be found on page pg 66 of that product. It is an exotic armor and can be enchanted like normal armor. I don't know if its defensive bonus would be as high as mithral chainmail, but its allowed dexterity bonus certainly would be. |
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Ad'non's Silk Shirt
