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This topic was inspire by the TOB items topic, wher I put up a lengthy description of some GOOD darts.

It seems darts are horrible. THE BEST DART (asp's nest) is +1, and even it can be prevented by the oh-so-rare protection spell cure poison

There is a dart that stuns, but it can be cancelled by a save vs. spells. That's just sad.

I mean, Darts are not the most impressive-looking weapons, something a thief or a mage might whip out as a last chance... but come on, wouldn't it be great to see a cool warrior dude with five points in darts, with darts returning to his hand (or just an infinitive-bag-of-darts kind of thing), darts casting spells, darts causing fear, paralysis, poison that can't be easily cured, LEVEL DRAIN darts (oh baby!!!), tiny darts that bring down huge dragons, darts that pierce all armor and scale, darts, darts, darts...

WHEW. I'm open to feedback.

Oh. And by the way, if you search this board for darts in the subject header, you will find ONE topic. THIS topic.

All right, I'm too bored (it's been 40 minutes, for G-d's sakes!!! ) of noone posting anything, so here's a go:

Andall'Xill's Armor: "Porcupine Scales"
This armor was forged by the famed warrior Andall'Xill when he stumbled upon a rare type of porcupine living in a mountainous region. Regular porcupines usually have tough spikes, but the ones on these porcupines were sharp as metal; what's more, if cut off they regrew, assuring that there was no head on way to destroy such beasts. Andall finally had to resort to trickery: he used one of his famous traps to secure a procupine under a very small cliff, then chased another porcupine off that cliff. The screams of the beast were horrid, but after they subsided, the hunter could take the sill beast by the ends of his armour and "skin him". This incredible artifact is the result of Andall's first "skin":


Counts as Studded Leather Armor

AC:-1, -4 vs. "short" weapons

-1 DEX (due to the clumsiness of the armor)

+1 CON (due to toughness)

-25% to hide in shadows AND to move silently

Because of the special thieving mastery put into the forging of the armor, wielder will always take only 1/3 damage from all traps, and have a 70% chance of resisting non-damage traps (in addition to his/her saving throws)

Has the ability to "absorb" missile weapons: every time an arrow/dart/bullet is fired at the wielder, there is a 25% chance it will appear in the wielder's inventory.

Three times a day, the wielder may have the spikes "stiffen" in a defensive stance. As a result, he is automatically slowed, and cannot pick up any items or lay any traps. However, the stance grants and additional +5 to AC, increases all the saving throws by 2, grants 30% magic resistance to magic missile, melf's acid arrow, flame arrow, and Chromatic Orb, and creates a spiked barrier around the caster, dealing 5d6 damage per second to anyone who comes within three feet of the caster.

The wielder is also able to pluck off individual spikes. When plucked off, a spike becomes a metallic dart that counts as a +3 weapon and, due to its sharpness, has a 10% chance of killing its target outright and a 15% chance of blinding him/her forever, unless cured by a lesser Restoration spell. Spikes will regrow after 1d4 rounds. However, if more than 5 spikes are plucked off, the regrowth time increases to 7d4 rounds.

Very nice: a creative piece of work. Not too powerful, and making a clever use of armaments to invoke a weapon.

Cool piece of armour. Have you made it?
I have played a halfling fighter with GM in darts and it was kinda cool. There is cloak of the stars that produce +5 darts, granted only five per day but still.

were do you get that cloak?

You get it when you have killed the shade lord. The former ranger has it and when she dies you can find it on her.

like the armor nice work.
But doe s anybody use the cloak of missles (??) ?
i dídn't use it alot because, u can't get to trow the darts but the darts come out a a frign' color spray !!
And i don't like the of that ( + the fact that i isn't that powerfull (wrong??)

First: I haven't made the armor, mostly because I am MUCH better at thinking up these things than at putting them in the game. I'd be very much obliged if someone like Manveru made it and tried it out in the game.

Second: I did completely forget about the cloak of the stars, and it's a great cloak, but six darts that do 1D3+5 damage, lets see that's 36-48 damage. Impressive, but not extremely: it would be VERY good if you could keep pumping these out from a distance at, say, Firkraag, while he's trying to kill your 200-HP barbarian, and actually kill the dragon eventually.
BTW, did anyone ever try to kill Kangaxx with the cloak of the stars? THAT would be hilarious, but I don;t think I've seen it come up in the hundreds of pages devoted to killing the demilich... I guess if they do come out in a color spray it would be hard to get them all to hit him...

Meanwhile, I'm gonna try and think up some other stuff. Keep the feedback coming.