But someone wanted every eastern weapon and set of armor to be distinct from its western equivalent which already existed. A nunchaku should just be a light flail reflavored but mechanically the same. A Katana should just be a longsword reflavored but mechanically the same. Yes, a haramaki should just be something like a chain shirt or lamellar reflavored but mechanically the same.
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I don't think it is terribly game breaking, wizard AC by the time wizards become a problem is pretty much irrelevant, and I think the ceremonial silk armor is pretty appropriately designed, and it has the same mechanics (except price difference.) If you had to come up with armored cummerbund stats, I guess those aren't bad. I suspect that someone came across Haramiki as being Japanese armor, and found the cummerbund, and then tried to come up with stats for an armored cummerbund. The ancient armor should probably just be a Lamellar cuirass. It is a Japanese cummerbund, and a form of Japanese armor that closed in the back. That's the last thing the masters of the universe need. The haramaki gives them some exotic cheese to break that little bit of balance. Keeping their AC and HP low enough that, if you can get to them, you can kill them quick - if you're lucky you might do it before they hit their "I Win" button spells. That version, like the cummerbund, deserves to be AC 0 with no arcane failure, but like the cummerbund, it should be treated as clothing, not armor.įrom a game balance perspective, having wizards (etc.) blow their spells if they wear armor is intended to create a little bit of game balance. Which is never made with chain or plates. Since they didn't design it like armor, they must be looking at the modern cummerbund haramaki. I doubt anybody would make that mistake except a Japanophile munchkin which the Pathfinder designers are not. It's obviously armor, worth more than AC0, and should have similar arcane failure as other similar armors. But nobody looks at that ancient haramaki and says "Oh, yeah, it's AC 0 and has no Arcane Failure %". If you go far enough back in Japanese history, a haramaki does look like armor. If it really is chainmail, then why not make it AC 5, or 4 like a chain shirt. Most cummerbunds and shirts don't have either. Let your wizard walk around with a +1 left sock of Spell Storing and a +4 smoking jacket and call it good - no exotic foreign languages needed.ĭM_Blake : Then what's your opinion on Silken ceremonial armor and Armored kilts?Īs to "haramaki is basically a belly belt made of cloth", your dropping the "lined with chainmail or articulated metal plates". If you're going to allow it in the game, then you should allow pants and shirts and socks and cummerbunds to have the same armor enchantments.
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There is no reason to say "People of Varisia never figured out how to enchant a cummerbund of Fortification but people in a far away land with an exotic language that sounds cool figured it out and are now flooding the Varisian markets with the exact same stupid thing but with an exotic name, and yet, we STILL cannot duplicate their exotic magic and do it ourselves in our own lands." But we have rules explicitly preventing shirts and cummerbunds with armor enchantments, and then Paizo breaks its own rule by making the same stupid thing with a Japanese word. Logically speaking, if a person can wear a haramaki of Fortification, then they should be able to wear a shirt of Fortification or literally wear a cummerbund of Fortification.
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I regret that Paizo ever created the haramaki (it should have been clothing, not armor, and therefore not eligible for armor enchantments).Ī haramaki is basically a belly belt made of cloth, it closely resembles a cummerbund.