This character is skilled at crafting and repairing armour. The type of armour he or she can create depends on the other crafting skills he has. For instance, if the crafter has blacksmithing, then he or she can create metal armour; if the character has leather crafting, then he can fashion armour from leather. If the crafter has Artistic Ability, then he or she can create armour that has great beauty -- the stuff worthy of Knights and powerful warriors. Note that Artist Ability is NOT required to make enchanted armour, but then again, enchanted armour may not appear much more impressive than normal armour without the use of Artist Ability.
Critical Success: The character has created armour that is of truly lasting value. On percentiles, a 01 to 79 indicates that the armour is +1 to AC (excellent craftsmanship); an 80 to 95 indicates that the armour has a +2 bonus to AC (masterful craftsmanship); a 96 to 00 indicates a +3 bonus to AC (unearthly craftsmanship).
Critical Failure: The character has created armour that will appear to be of good quality in every respect. However, the first time it is struck in real combat, the armour will reveal a critical flaw and thus have a -2 penalty to AC. Nothing short of scrapping the armour and starting over can fix this problem.
Additional Skills needed to produce various kinds of armour:
- Heavy organic armour (hide, studded leather, etc.) = Leather Craft
- Metal armour (chain mail, plate mail) = Blacksmithing
- Advanced tech armour (Kevlar) = Chemistry and Weaving or Tailor/Seamstress. Note that building Advanced types of armour is not an easy task and the character must have high intensities in the appropriate skills to even begin to understand how to design such armour.
- Shields: Blacksmithing or Woodcraft. Metal shields are heavier but will not burn in fires.
- Helmets: Blacksmithing or Leather Craft. Leather caps are cheap, but don’t last through too many seasons or battles when compared to metal helmets.