Weapons and Armour

Weapons

This is a complete list of all available weapons and their base damage. Type is the category the weapon falls under when you are adding advantages or disadvantages for weapons in Character Creation.

Weapon Name	Damage	Hands	Type	Skill Used

Dagger	1-6	One	Short	Short Blade
Tanto	1-8	One	Short	Short Blade
Shortsword	1-8	One	Short	Short Blade
Staff	1-8	One	Blunt	Blunt Weapon
Short Bow	4-16	Two	Missile	Archery
Wakazashi	1-10	One	Short	Short Blade
Broadsword	1-12	One	Long	Long Blade
Mace	1-12	One	Blunt	Blunt Weapon
Long Bow	4-18	Two	Missile	Archery
Battle Axe	2-12	One	Axe	Axe
War Axe	2-12	Two	Axe	Axe
Saber	3-12	One	Long	Long Blade
Flail	2-14	Two	Blunt	Blunt Weapon
Longsword	2-16	One	Long	Long Blade
Katana	3-16	One	Long	Long Blade
Claymore	2-18	Two	Long	Long Blade
Warhammer	3-18	Two	Blunt	Blunt Weapon
Dai-Katana	3-21	Two	Long	Long Blade

The base damage is that done by a weapon forged in steel. Weapons forged in other materials carry damage bonuses according to the following table:

Weapon Material	Bonus Damage

Iron	-2
Steel	0
Silver	0
Elven	+2
Dwarven	+4
Mithril	+6
Adamantium	+6
Ebony	+8
Orcish	+10
Daedric	+12

Well, that was straightforward. Now on to something a little more obscure.....

Armour

Armour comes in three basic types: leather, chain and plate. In addition, plate armour can be made of various types of metal and the better the metal, the greater the bonus given to the protection value of the armour. [Note that if your character is forbidden from wearing plate, they will not be able to wear armour made of any of these better materials.] Sounds simple enough, doesn't it? But this is where it starts to get complicated.

When you find armour in the game you can use the 'info' button to see the bonus that the piece will give. When you put the armour on you can see the protection value that it gives you. Unfortunately, these two figures do not add up! The best theory that has been proposed on the a.g.d newsgroup by Jeremy is that the game doesn't use the armour bonuses at all when it calculates protection value, but instead uses the same bonuses as in the weapon table above. Using these values, the numbers actually make some sense! Here's a table of all the numbers, so you can decide for yourself. At the end of the day the number that matters most is the one in the 'Protection Rating' column. And if any one else has any other theories on just what the game is calculating here, I'd be happy to hear them!

Leather armour gives a protection rating of 3 (listed bonus is +1)
Chain armour gives a protection rating of 6 (listed bonus is +3)
Plate armour gives a protection rating of 9 (assuming steel is the basic plate and material bonuses add to this figure)

Normal clothing gives no protection value, with the exception of shoes and boots which are made of leather. Because of the material these items give the normal 3 rating from the advantage of leather and give protection to the feet, even though they are not considered to be pieces of armour. This also applies to sandals, though how much protection those strappy things would really give you is open to debate!

Material	Armour Bonus	Weapon Bonus	Protection Rating

Iron	+3	-2	7
Steel	+4	0	9
Silver	+4	0	9
Elven	+5	+2	11
Dwarven	+6	+4	13
Mithril	+7	+6	15
Adamantium	+7	+6	15
Ebony	+8	+8	17
Orcish	+9	+10	19
Daedric	+10	+12	21

It is also possible to increase the protection rating of any armour by 5 points by creating a magic item that has the 'strengthens armor' attribute, once you have access to an item maker. This bonus will apply even if you are not wearing armour, giving you an effective armour rating of 5 even if you are running around naked! Very useful for any character types that are forbidden to wear armour at all.

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