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Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest

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[X] A Versetile Armory.
-[X] The Longsword and Shield, tried and true, afoot or ahorse
-[X] The Light Flail, a weapon most adept in disarming the foe, to capture or to slay
-[X] The Lance, most chivalrous of weapons
-[X] The Bec de Corbin, bane of any knight to stand against you
-[X] Longbow, a weapon more for hunting than for war in the hands of a knight, but it can serve the latter purpose most deadly in a pinch
-[X] Chainmail, respectable protection at the cost of not too much encumbrance (2Point)
[X] Barding for Silver, rare armor for a rare steed
-[X] Light 2 Points
 
[X] Plan Armor mates.
-[X] The Lance, most chivalrous of weapons
-[X] The Longsword and Shield, tried and true, afoot or ahorse
-[X] Banded Mail, rather cumbersome, but still a life-saver in battle (4 Points)
-[X] Barding for Silver, rare armor for a rare steed
--[X] Heavy 4 Points

Looks good to me.

DragonParadox said:
This is not Kansas so you cannot really trust Roland's own sense of what things are worth to judge.
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*urge to pump Appraise intensifies*
 
[X] Plan Armor and Variety of Arms
-[X] The Longsword and Shield, tried and true, afoot or ahorse
-[X] The Lance, most chivalrous of weapons
-[X] Longbow, a weapon more for hunting than for war in the hands of a knight, but it can serve the latter purpose most deadly in a pinch
-[X] Banded Mail, rather cumbersome, but still a life-saver in battle (4 Points)
-[X] Barding for Silver, rare armor for a rare steed
--[X] Light

Okay, so, I'm including the bow and excluding the anti-armor piece I'd otherwise argue for, because I find the bow to be useful in a highly-likely survival situation (being able to shoot game is much needed even if Survival skill of the MC's nonextistent), and a reasonable long-range option.

Alternatively, one could throw it out and go for the heavy horse armor. DLC CONTENT, ONLY 5 BUCKS
Which is an option too, but is a bit bad in regards to movement speed.
 
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I switched over to A Versetile Armory because since we don't know how are options compare to the locals. Better to have more options as far as Weapons go and as far as are my goals I think the mobility is important because if we are out classed that may be our Saving Grace.
 
Blacknight said:
I switched over to A Versetile Armory because since we don't know how are options compare to the locals. Better to have more options as far as Weapons go and as far as are my goals I think the mobility is important because if we are out classed that may be our Saving Grace.
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Especially if enemies have magical weapons that strike like a cannon ball. Armor won't do much against that, but dodging would.
 
RandyTrevelyan said:
Especially if enemies have magical weapons that strike like a cannon ball. Armor won't do much against that, but dodging would.
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That's not how D&D works.
A +1 sword just swords a bit better than a regular sword.

And against Fireballs it makes no difference if we wear light or heavy armor, our Reflex save is not affected.

[X] Plan Armor mates.
-[X] The Lance, most chivalrous of weapons
-[X] The Longsword and Shield, tried and true, afoot or ahorse
-[X] Banded Mail, rather cumbersome, but still a life-saver in battle (4 Points)
-[X] Barding for Silver, rare armor for a rare steed
--[X] Heavy 4 Points

I guess this is the best we can do. Getting a Halberd or Lucerne Hammer would still be nice, but that can happen later.
 
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[X] Plan Armor mates.
-[X] The Lance, most chivalrous of weapons
-[X] The Longsword and Shield, tried and true, afoot or ahorse
-[X] Banded Mail, rather cumbersome, but still a life-saver in battle (4 Points)
-[X] Barding for Silver, rare armor for a rare steed
--[X] Heavy 4 Points
 
Y'know, @egoo does have a point about ranged options. Gonna mix this up a little because I suspect it will also affect our overall proficiencies ala ASWAH. @DragonParadox would I be right about this, actually? I feel it would be useful to make clear.

[X] Plan Armor and Variety of Arms
 
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I don't see much point in selecting a lance right now. It's cumbersome and extremely situational. Longbows are great, but not particularly fitting for use on horseback.

I would like to have the heavier barding for Silver, but that's more weight to encumber our mount when we don't really know what conditions we're going to be dealing with in the future, what terrain we might encounter, etc. The heavy barding would also slow Silver down.

[X] Plan Chivalry Is Dead
-[X] The Longsword and Shield, tried and true, afoot or ahorse
-[X] The Bec de Corbin, bane of any knight to stand against you
-[X] Light Crossbow, not chivalrous mayhap but not all wars may be won with chivalry, particularly when one stands upon a parapet no lance is long enough
-[X] Banded Mail, rather cumbersome, but still a life-saver in battle
-[X] Barding for Silver, rare armor for a rare steed
--[X] Light
 
[X] Plan Armor mates.
[X] Plan Armor and Variety of Arms

Pretty much quintessential knight loadout.

Remember, this is Pathfinder. There is no advantage vs AC to using a particular type of weaponry.
 
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Snowfire said:
Y'know, @egoo does have a point about ranged options. Gonna mix this up a little because I suspect it will also affect our overall proficiencies ala ASWAH. @DragonParadox would I be right about this, actually? I feel it would be useful to make clear.
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Yes, you will have proficiencies in the things you choose and not in for instance every martial weapon since that would not make much logical sense.
 
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Goldfish said:
I don't see much point in selecting a lance right now. It's cumbersome and extremely situational. Longbows are great, but not particularly fitting for use on horseback.

I would like to have the heavier barding for Silver, but that's more weight to encumber our mount when we don't really know what conditions we're going to be dealing with in the future, what terrain we might encounter, etc. The heavy barding would also slow Silver down.

[X] Plan Chivalry Is Dead
-[X] The Longsword and Shield, tried and true, afoot or ahorse
-[X] The Bec de Corbin, bane of any knight to stand against you
-[X] Light Crossbow, not chivalrous mayhap but not all wars may be won with chivalry, particularly when one stands upon a parapet no lance is long enough
-[X] Banded Mail, rather cumbersome, but still a life-saver in battle
-[X] Barding for Silver, rare armor for a rare steed
--[X] Light
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Why crossbow instead of longbow? The latter has a better range increment and doesn't provoke when you reload it. I don't see us as likely to use either when on horseback.
 
inirlan said:
A bonus to sunder armor, no? And few people sunder anything in Pathfinder because it destroys your loot. ^^'
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That is true and in the case of magic armor you should absolutely think that way because magic is precious, but I should note there are other ways to make money than to loot mundane weapons and armor off corpses. You do not have to worry about that as much as in a traditional PF campaign.
 
DragonParadox said:
OOC: These dreams do not give you magic powers, but they do give you weapons and armor, which when one thinks about is is the cavalier equivalent thereof.you guys can propose other things, but they have to fit the time period at least a little. The full suit of plates is kind of pushing it as is.
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Yeah, plate mail as most people think of it (the full-body suit of plates) didn't actually exist until sometime in the mid to late 1300s. And it wasn't the Europeans who first used them, but the Mongols of the Golden Horde.

The average knight of the 13th century would have been wearing chainmail (chain coat, with sleeves and gloves, and chain leggings). Maybe they'd have a coat of plates (think something the size of a modern flak vest) over that which would protect the chest.

Our knight would take one look at a suit of full plate and probably go "the hell do I do with that?" Not to mention he wouldn't know how to get the thing on.

If we really want to keep historically accurate, we'd probably pick sword and shield and Lance as our weapons. Two-handing a sword started being more common around the time full-plate was, since you really didn't need the shield anymore. Before that, not so much.

And since he's English, the Longbow might be appropriate too. There were requirements that peasants were legally required to practice with their bows, in case they needed to be called up for war (due to the sheer amount of time needed to build up the muscle needed to use the thing). It wouldn't be too out of place for him to have one too, especially if he went hunting.
 
Rictus said:
And since he's English, the Longbow might be appropriate too. There were requirements that peasants were legally required to practice with their bows, in case they needed to be called up for war (due to the sheer amount of time needed to build up the muscle needed to use the thing). It wouldn't be too out of place for him to have one too, especially if he went hunting.
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Technically he is not English, he is a Norman from Normandy with (distant) family in Sicily, that is why he was heading that way
 
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