Dwarven Bread (3.5e Equipment)

= Dwarven Bread =

Summary::Dwarven bread is baked by the finest dwarven chefs in the mountains. While a delicious snack for dwarves, other races find it inedible.  Perhaps because its so hard that they can actually bake weapons out of the stuff.  Dwarven bread resembles several forms of Germanic bread rolls, with a hard outer shell and "soft" interior. Dwarves can eat it fine, but for everything else it is as strong as iron. Dwarves prefer iron for their weapons since it eventually lasts longer, but dwarven bread weapons are easy to make in a pinch and double as a ration in times of need.

Any weapon primarily composed of metal can be made as a dwarven bread weapon. They make poor edges, with slashing and piercing weapons taking a -1 penalty on damage, but no penalty on bludgeoning. Dwarven bread can be eaten by dwarves, feeding a single dwarf for a day per pound of the weapon. Once half the weapon has been eaten the weapon is considered sundered. If submerged in water for over 1 minute, dwarven bread gets soggy and is destroyed. It can survive brief dips into liquid though just fine. Dwarven bread has 30 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 10. Treat shields as weapons for the purpose of how it reacts with dwarven bread.

Armor can also be made with dwarven bread. Such armor usually appears delicious. The armor protects you from ranged attacks, acting as if you were a fortified structure. You gain damage reduction against ranged non-siege weapons like arrows and bolts. Light armor gains DR 2/-, medium armor gains DR 4/-, and heavy armor gains DR 6/-.

Dwarven bread needs special preparation so all weapons and armor made from it are always of masterwork quality; the masterwork cost is included in the prices given below. Thus, dwarven bread weapons and ammunition have a +1 enhancement bonus on attack rolls, and the armor check penalty of dwarven bread armor is lessened by 1 compared to ordinary armor of its type.

Dwarven bread is crafted and repaired with the Craft Cooking skill.