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.
| Size | Humanoid Cost |
Nonhumanoid Cost |
Armor Bonus |
Weight | Hit Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | +5 | Expression error: Unrecognized word "lb". lb. | 10 |
| Medium | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | +5 | 25 lb. lb. | 10 |
| Non-Standard Sizes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | +2 | Expression error: Unrecognized word "lb". lb. | 10 |
| Diminutive | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | +2 | Expression error: Unrecognized word "lb". lb. | 10 |
| Tiny | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | +2 | Expression error: Unrecognized word "lb". lb. | 10 |
| Large | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | +5 | Expression error: Unrecognized word "lb". lb. | 10 |
| Huge | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | +5 | Expression error: Unrecognized word "lb". lb. | 10 |
| Gargantuan | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | +5 | Expression error: Unrecognized word "lb". lb. | 10 |
| Colossal | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". | +5 | Expression error: Unrecognized word "lb". 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 |
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Barrel armor grants its wearer continuous cover (+4 to Armor Class) against projectiles such as arrows, thrown weapons, bolts and bullets.
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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| Arcane Spell Failure | 50% + |
| Armor Bonus | +5 + |
| Armor Check | -8 + |
| Author | Sulacu + |
| Cost | Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp".Expression error: Unrecognized word "gp". + |
| Identifier | 3.5e Equipment + |
| Max Dex Bonus | +0 + |
| Rated By | Eiji-kun + |
| Rating | Rating Pending + |
| Summary | It's a barrel. + |
| Title | Barrel Armor + |
| Type | Medium + |
| Weight | 25 lb. lb. + |
