Barrel Armor (3.5e Equipment)

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Barrel Armor

It's a large hardwood barrel with a removable lid, with the top and bottom planes knocked off and fitted with suspenders. It is meant to be worn over the chest. A person wearing a barrel runs the risk of looking silly, and the barrel greatly restricts one's mobility and manual dexterity, but there are certainly advantages to wearing a barrel. For one, it's not too hard to slip into a barrel, and the materials are, like, really really cheap. Just get a barrel and some straps. Repairing a broken barrel is pretty much impossible, but usually finding a replacement barrel isn't too much of a hassle.

Barrel Armor (Medium)

Size	Humanoid Cost	Nonhumanoid Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Hit Points
Small	5 gp	10 gp	+4	15 lb.	10
Medium	5 gp	10 gp	+4	30 lb.	10

Non-Standard Sizes
Fine	2 gp 5 sp	5 gp	+2	3 lb.	10
Diminutive	2 gp 5 sp	5 gp	+2	3 lb.	10
Tiny	2 gp 5 sp	5 gp	+2	3 lb.	10
Large	10 gp	20 gp	+4	60 lb.	10
Huge	20 gp	40 gp	+4	150 lb.	10
Gargantuan	40 gp	80 gp	+4	240 lb.	10
Colossal	80 gp	160 gp	+4	360 lb.	10

Maximum Dex Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Hardness
+0	-8	50%	7

Speed
Base	20 ft.	30 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.	80 ft.	90 ft.	100 ft.
Armored	15 ft.	20 ft.	30 ft.	35 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	55 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.

Don	Don Hastily	Remove
1 minute	5 rounds	1 minute1
If the character has some help, cut this time in half. A single character doing nothing else can help one or two adjacent characters. Two characters can't help each other don armor at the same time.

Barrel armor grants its wearer continuous cover (+4 to Armor Class) against projectiles such as arrows, thrown weapons, bolts and bullets. Furthermore, in times of duress, the wearer of a barrel armor may use the barrel to reduce the damage of an attack, fall or other hazard. Doing this halves the damage dealt and breaks the barrel.

As a move action, the wearer of the barrel armor may go into 'barrel mode', in which he or she kneels to the ground and thinks barrel-like thoughts. He becomes, in essence, a barrel and may be mistaken for such. He may hide in plain sight (as a barrel) and gains a +8 circumstance bonus to Hide and Disguise checks (to impersonate a barrel) as long as he does not make any movements.

However, should a person wearing barrel armor fall prone on sloping ground, he or she will roll downhill uncontrollably at a rate of 60 ft. per round until the ground levels out. While this is a potential issue, some barrel wearers use this as a means to beat a strategic retreat. While rolling, the barrel-wearer is capable of overrun attacks against creature up to his or her own size category, or bull rush attacks against larger creatures. All opposed Strength-based checks while rolling are made with a +4 circumstance bonus.

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