Dwarvenbeard (3.5e Equipment)

Dwarvenbeard
Summary::Dwarvenbeard is (supposedly) the woven beards of hard-working and powerful dwarves. The thick hairs have the strength of iron, the flexibility of cloth, and the smell of beer.

Well, the beer smell is typically more due to those who wear dwarvenbeard and their habits than the fabric itself. The material is seen as both useful and yet somewhat of a faux pas, as it brings up the question of what a dwarf was doing shaving their beard in the first place. However in other communities, some have taken the act of wearing armor made from there own beards. In this way they can show off how they have excess beard, without the problems of tripping over one's own majestic curtain of hair. Of course, non-dwarves rarely care and buy it for the protective qualities.

Few weapons can be made of dwarvenbeard, limited to flexible fabric items like the sap or whip. These weapons has a +50% increase in weight. The extra weight gives a +2 on sunder checks (which stack with any bonus from the weapon). If they dealt non-lethal damage, they can now choose to deal either lethal or non-lethal at your choice. Whips in particular gain the ability to attack regardless of the armor of natural armor of their target.

On fabric armor and clothing dwarvenbeard finds more use. When made into such items, the AC bonus it provides increases by +1 (robes and outfits are treated as if having AC 0), and a +2 bonus on Stability as a dwarf. This stacks with the dwarven racial feature. Curiously, the hairs seem to absorb alcohol easily, giving a +4 bonus on Fort saves against intoxication and poison. The weight of the armor is increased by +50%. Dwarvenbeard has no real effect on shields.

Dwarvenbeard 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, dwarvenbeard weapons and ammunition have a +1 enhancement bonus on attack rolls, and the armor check penalty of dwarvenbeard armor is lessened by 1 compared to ordinary armor of its type.

Dwarvenbeard has 8 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 4.