Timeline for How can armor compete in a world of biological enchantment?
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| May 20, 2019 at 15:38 | comment | added | Delioth | (IF you want to go a more morbid-fantasy route) What happens if someone has the runes tattooed on and their skin is later tanned to use as part of armor? Could create interesting consequences if e.g. tattooed runes are more powerful (and can definitely fuel the "evil people get easy power at some really morbid costs"). Also it's not clear - is Wraithbone the only nonliving material that runes can be etched in for use (and thus armor is "tattoos but more expensive and clunky"), or is it just the most common ("Steel is a luxury and lets people trade armors"). | |
| May 20, 2019 at 8:16 | answer | added | Demigan | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 20, 2019 at 3:01 | answer | added | Thorne | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 19, 2019 at 5:09 | comment | added | Mark Ripley | Related to the 'are the runes permanent' comment by Cumehtar, if the runes need a power source (or recharging) to function, one system I read about ('Tinker') had skin (tattooed) runes that pull biological energy from the wearer, which might have nasty side effects if too much energy is pulled too fast. These side effects could be avoided if the runes on armor causes the armor to experiences 100 years of aging/erosion (or whatever) rather than the armor wearer. | |
| May 19, 2019 at 4:06 | answer | added | Joe Bloggs | timeline score: 11 | |
| May 19, 2019 at 3:36 | answer | added | Halfthawed | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 19, 2019 at 2:30 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | After you added the wraith bone, the armor runes are basically defined as "same as biological runes except more expensive". I think your issue is putting too much stress on them being similar. Let armor be non-personal. Define it to have effects you cannot apply to biological runes. Let it be used synergistically with biological runes. Why make things hard on yourself when you can define things as you wish? | |
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| May 18, 2019 at 23:50 | comment | added | Cumehtar | Are the runes permanent? And if not, how long does it take to remove the enchantment from the skin and lay it on again? And a second question - can several types of runes can be put on the same person? Say, armor, speed and strength? | |
| May 18, 2019 at 22:13 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @AlexP: what’s obvious to you may be an entirely valid answer to the question. I mean, people don’t ask questions on Stack Overflow because they know the answers, even if the answers (or how to find the answers) are quite obvious to people outside their immediate circumstances. I’ve asked some questions where the answers are blindingly simple as soon as I’ve seen them written down. Of course, if you don’t want to write that answer as a matter of principle I’ll happily do so! :-) | |
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| May 18, 2019 at 19:29 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 18, 2019 at 19:09 | comment | added | AlexP | @Dubukay: That's not an answer, that a set of quick and obvious observations which the querent must address before the question can be answered. If they didn't consider the obvious advantages of a bicycle vs. a pair of good running legs, then maybe the question is not yet completely ready to be asked. | |
| May 18, 2019 at 18:56 | comment | added | Dubukay | @AlexP that sounds like a pretty darn good answer if you’d like to write it up! | |
| May 18, 2019 at 18:44 | comment | added | AlexP | My skin is mine and I cannot share it, but I can lend you my armor, and I can sell it to you; a company can have a number of armored suits in the armory from where employees and draw them as needed when needed; armor can be left as inheritance; armor can be provided for the duration of employment; etc. | |
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