3.5 Skinning

[My Conscience]

Our group has switched back from 4 to 3.5, and in our first encounter we
fought and killed a dragon. One character wants to skin it and make
armor out of the hide, but it isn't clear how long that will take, and I
think it will distract from our mission. I am supposed to do the
research on time but I could not find anything anywhere.

Got any ideas?

[Allen Wessels]

In article <JYpll.299$aZ3...@newsfe01.iad>,
My Conscience <thatdarns...@myheels.invalid> wrote:

There's a short section in the DMG on page 283 that covers dragonhide
armor. Assuming the dragon is large enough, it's doable. The time to
skin a dragon and cure the hide?

As a DM I would probably call it a day to skin and prepare the hide
(dependong on available skills and manpower) and hint that things are
progressing elsewhere.

- Allen

[Jefgo...@gmail.com]

On Feb 13, 9:25 pm, My Conscience

IMHO the process would be similar to tanning snake-hide, so roughly 36-
hours per http://crotalus.kittycrack.net/tanning.htm, scaling (pardon
the pun) up the time to oil the hide, plus time to convert the
finished hide into leather armor which would require an armor-smith,
leather-smith, and of course time for fitting/etc per since armor, esp
leather should be custom-fitted to the owner.

[Jim Davies]

On the grave of My Conscience <thatdarns...@myheels.invalid> is
inscribed:

How big is the dragon? There's going to be quite some variation.

--
Jim or Sarah Davies, but probably Jim

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