Flexsteel (3.5e Equipment)

Flexsteel
Idylean conception, flexsteel is extremely hard and light yet as flexible as clothes.]] Flexsteel can be used for fabric, metal and wooden armors and weapons, it great flexibility and lightness make it perfect in the conception of various vehicles as well. The material spread from Idylis and many smiths around the worlds know how to work this unique material, although the methods of making the material itself is still a mystery for most.

Armor and shields made of flexsteel weight half as much as they normally do, unless it is used on a fabric armor like leather armor in which case it weight is multiplied by two. Flexsteel used on metal armor and shield lower the armor check penalty by 3 and increase the max dexterity bonus by 2, the armor also count as one size category lighter. If used on fabric armor is increase the armor bonus of the armor by 2 instead. Due to it flexibility and design, an armor made of flexsteel count as clothing for the purpose of removing it or sleeping in it.

Flextseel shields allow you to rebound incoming attacks, disarming them in the process. Whenever a creature miss you with a natural 1 or miss your AC by 5 or more points you may attempt a disarm attempt that do not provoke an attack of opportunity as immediate action, if the disarm attempt is successful the creature immediately make an attack against itself at a -5 penalty with the disarmed weapon as the weapon rebound right in it face. After the attack the weapon is disarmed as normal. Weapons made of flextseel are also usually flexible and almost appears like soft children toys replica, but they are just as deadly. A flexsteel weapon and armor grant it wielder a +4 bonus when feinting in combat and to avoid being disarmed. When used on whip or similar weapon with the same limitation, it allow the weapon to deal lethal damages and make it so that armor and natural armor do not negate damage from your whip attacks. Weapons with reach made of flexsteel gain an extra benefit as well, they are so flexible they gain the ability to strike at adjacent targets. Finally projectile weapons made of flexsteel possess a lot more force than normal, thanks to it flexibility and strength making it far superior to most wood. A projectile weapon made of flextseel increase it range by 30', it also always count as composite when beneficial and automatically adjust to it user's strength score.

Flexsteel has 30 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 15.