[TORG] Why don't wizards run around in tin cans?

[Samuel Phillips Koller]

*in a thick Russian accent*  One word..TRADITION!!!

Ok but seriously, why would they?  It makes no logical sense for them to do so, presuming that game mechanical math reflects physics or magical principles they are aware of.  
The average caster will have sunk as many points as possible into Perception and Mind, with Spirit as a close third (disconnect = BAD) so they are likely to have about 10 in toughness, if that.  SO if they are wearing the best you can get at early game (plate mail) then they are going to end up with an armor value of 16.  

Now come the math.  Light armor has an effect = toughness of 16, the same as plate mail.  A few simple manipulations (cast=> duration, Diff=> backlash, Backlash => effect) and our mage might well end up with a armor toughness in the 20's.  

Enchanted plate mail you say.  Well obviously, but lets have a look here.  Presuming are mage is reasonably competent, he could very well manipulate the effect value up to 30.  30-25=5 so the power push table says that our plate mail now has a value of +8/27.  

But let us say instead our mage decided to run out of the house in his underware.  A few rounds of manipulation later (most of them dealing with cast time and duration) our magical underpants (silk lining) are +6/25, almost as good as the plate mail, and certainly less expansive!

just my 2 cents

S Koller


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominick Riesland" <rabbitball at gmail.com>
To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 12:11:58 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [TORG] Why don't wizards run around in tin cans?

As far as I have examined the rules, there is nothing preventing a
wizard from running around in Armor of the Draconis Metallica (or
other similarly tough metallic covering for their otherwise soft,
fleshy bodies), and yet they never do. Why is that?

Dominick Riesland, aka Rabbitball
Creator of the Cosmversal Grimoire
"There are always possibilities, my sergeant told me. But he never had
his possibilities torn away like wings from a fly."
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