[PnP] Re: Weapon and Armor making

[Choinski, Burton]

All times I have, from sources and Harn and such, are time to actually fashion, assuming materials at hand, teh weapon and any other stuff such as Scabards and strings.  I heard it can take a 3 months "a season to season...hmmm" to get wood dry enough to make a usable bow.

For my purposes, I'll assume that the players can "*poof*" get the materials, but they will need to expand town time crafting (and no training and such).  However, given the roll chance they get they have a better chance of a fine weapon.  And player-crafted weapons are by definition more pure for enchantments, since they can be assured of the quality.




-----Original Message-----
From: pnp-bounces at abroere.xs4all.nl on behalf of Matthew Lynn
Sent: Thu 10/5/2006 8:14 PM
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Subject: RE: [PnP] Re: Weapon and Armor making
 
The question I'd have for said plains indian is whether or not he used
seasoned wood... It takes a fair bit of time to properly season wood...
It would be my suspicion that the P&P bowyer costs would reflect time
taken to season the wood, as opposed to just time to shape and string
the bow.
Just my two cents,
Matt

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[mailto:pnp-bounces at abroere.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Scott Adams
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:05 PM
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Subject: RE: [PnP] Re: Weapon and Armor making



>
>Going with this, it take a P&P Bowyer (at 1GC/month) pretty much a 
>month to make a bow (282 hours) -- about twice as long as it takes to
craft a broadsword.  However, sources I have seen have this at MUCH less
(from 2h for a master bowyer on one site, to 18h as noted in Harn).
Still digging, including a query to a manufacturer of traditional
longbows.
A month for a bow?!  Wow.  I read somewhere once that a plains indian
could do one in 2 days and he had chores to do.  Course I guess one is
better than the others.  I'd say a month is good for a arbalest but a
simple bow and string?  Hrm....this whole topic though I'd have to have
time to sit down and analyze.  


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