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So I was working with a GM doing alteration and I asked body armor was allowed... only on double leathers.
Then I asked if battle-armor was allowed... not allowed anymore.
What about vestments - robes only.
Then I was told for full leathers, approved nouns are leathers, armor, arming(adj) doublet(noun), and buffcoat.
The 'arming' must be used in the adjective for doublet to be used as noun.
So basically the information I got from that GM was more informative than the combined 200 posts in this folder, haha. Hopefully someone else can use this info.
So then I asked if "a set of fitted dark elven magi leathers/tunic/armor/" was allowed or not. He had no answer.
I was denied the alteration spot and told to ask on the forums instead.
So here I am, to ask if my design is allowed.
Also can a GM confirm if jerkin, tunic, leather shirt, or habits are allowed nouns for anything?
>>dark elven magi leathers
First of all, I wasn't the GM/Merchant who worked with you on this. But the first thing that I would say, had I been, is that I wouldn't be able to discern magi leathers from healer leathers from bartender leathers. So, that'd be a no regardless of the noun.
~GM Liia
Team 3P, Paid Events Guru
First of all, I wasn't the GM/Merchant who worked with you on this. But the first thing that I would say, had I been, is that I wouldn't be able to discern magi leathers from healer leathers from bartender leathers. So, that'd be a no regardless of the noun.
~GM Liia
Team 3P, Paid Events Guru
Further on that train of thought...
What about wizard robes? Is that allowed?
Wizard hat is literally in the alter documentation as allowed.
So let's assume for a moment that that wizard robes are allowed, what separates a magi from a wizard from a magister from a magus?
Well let's look at a dictionary... magi is the plural form of magus and magus is a magician/sorcerer or in other words a magic user.
Magician being defined as someone who makes the impossible happen, same with sorcerer which is someone who uses sorcery.
In the generic sense of the word, magi would mean magic-user, so therefore a magic-user's armor.
Sure, you can't discern healer leathers from from a bartender's leathers because honestly nobody knows what the hell healer's leathers look like.
But you could probably imagine when you say bartender leathers that it'd be stained with ale and shabby work leathers.
Similarly if I said magician's armor I assume you would be imagining some set of pristine set of armor with all sort of fancy intricate designs that do all sorts of complex magical impossible things.. well because.. it's magic.
What about wizard robes? Is that allowed?
Wizard hat is literally in the alter documentation as allowed.
So let's assume for a moment that that wizard robes are allowed, what separates a magi from a wizard from a magister from a magus?
Well let's look at a dictionary... magi is the plural form of magus and magus is a magician/sorcerer or in other words a magic user.
Magician being defined as someone who makes the impossible happen, same with sorcerer which is someone who uses sorcery.
In the generic sense of the word, magi would mean magic-user, so therefore a magic-user's armor.
Sure, you can't discern healer leathers from from a bartender's leathers because honestly nobody knows what the hell healer's leathers look like.
But you could probably imagine when you say bartender leathers that it'd be stained with ale and shabby work leathers.
Similarly if I said magician's armor I assume you would be imagining some set of pristine set of armor with all sort of fancy intricate designs that do all sorts of complex magical impossible things.. well because.. it's magic.
The old "ranger's cloak" dilemma.
It's a matter of art. It's not something one can get argumentative about. It Is Decided that there are some styles, attributes and cultural aesthetics that are generally recognizable, and some that are not. You can figure out which by experience, and then kind of reason / feel it out from that.
-E
>What about wizard robes? Is that allowed?
>Wizard hat is literally in the alter documentation as allowed.
I think we all have a specific image for "a wizard hat." But, not a "sorcerer hat" for instance. This is a less typical case, where the profession adjective actually specifies something identifiable.
The 'wizard robes' are unlikely to be allowed, because I don't distinguish which robes a wizard wears from other kinds of robes. As yourself if "sorcerer robes" and "wizard robes" are different. I think the answer is no, and as such, this is disallowed.
>An officer of the Sorcerer Guild arrives and glances around. "Ah, there you are, Vathon!" he says in a slightly agitated tone. "I have come to formally declare that your membership privileges have been revoked."
>Wizard hat is literally in the alter documentation as allowed.
I think we all have a specific image for "a wizard hat." But, not a "sorcerer hat" for instance. This is a less typical case, where the profession adjective actually specifies something identifiable.
The 'wizard robes' are unlikely to be allowed, because I don't distinguish which robes a wizard wears from other kinds of robes. As yourself if "sorcerer robes" and "wizard robes" are different. I think the answer is no, and as such, this is disallowed.
>An officer of the Sorcerer Guild arrives and glances around. "Ah, there you are, Vathon!" he says in a slightly agitated tone. "I have come to formally declare that your membership privileges have been revoked."
>I think we all have a specific image for "a wizard hat."
Like a witch's but flashier.
A light, bright blue, but dark enough to still definitely be blue.
A 3' tall, 1' base cone with a 1' rim.
Orange, with a touch of pink stars, 2" size sprinkled with a 6" spacing.
A large "Z" (for wiZZard) picked out in clear zircons.
Like a witch's but flashier.
A light, bright blue, but dark enough to still definitely be blue.
A 3' tall, 1' base cone with a 1' rim.
Orange, with a touch of pink stars, 2" size sprinkled with a 6" spacing.
A large "Z" (for wiZZard) picked out in clear zircons.
>>I have a vision of a sorcerer's hat, as well. A hemispherical collection of alternating red and white wedged shape sections, with a modest free-spinning wooden propeller raised three-fingers width at the cap's peak.
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~GM Liia, almost tempted to put this on Sylinar. Almost.
Team 3P, Paid Events Guru
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~GM Liia, almost tempted to put this on Sylinar. Almost.
Team 3P, Paid Events Guru
