Thresh Carapace (3.5e Equipment)

Thresh Carapace
A Thresh's dorsal plates are very suited for molding into lightweight yet strong protective armor. The material is about as heavy as most forms of lumber, but its hardness is greater than mithral. The carapace is a burnished dark red or orange, rife with jagged patternings. Due to its thickness, thresh carapace is also very well suited for engraving and art. Some native tribes of cave dwellers use thresh carapace for fashioning arrowheads and Tiki masks.

Thresh carapace is usually harvested from Thresh soldiers, as their plates are far harder, larger and thicker than those of Thresh workers. Items fashioned from Thresh carapace are always masterwork.

Armor and Shields
Armor based on plate constructions, as well as heavy shields and tower shields can be made of Thresh carapace. The plates are affixed to an underlay of leather or brigandine, and molded to the shape of the warrior.

The armor check penalty of armor and shield fashioned from Thresh carapace is decreased by 1, and the arcane spell failure chance goes down by 5%. Certain armor types are treated as in a lighter class, as per Table: Thresh Carapace Armor and Shields. Furthermore, armor fashioned from Thresh carapace gives resistance to acid. This resistance is 3 for light armor, 6 for medium armor, and 10 for heavy armor.

Shields made of Thresh carapace grant evasion against acid effects. Tower shields made of Thresh carapace grant imroved evasion against acid effects. Bucklers offer no evasion.

Weapons
Thresh carapace is generally unsuited for making weapons due to the fact that it cannot be mended like a steel weapon can, but since the jagged edges of the material leave ugly wounds, a weapon fashioned from it deals 1 additional point of damage.

Arrows can be made of Thresh carapace. Arrows fashioned from Thresh carapace also confer 1 additional point of damage, and are difficult to remove once embedded in flesh. Removing a Thresh carapace arrow from a creature without a successful DC 15 Heal check deals 1d6 points of damage.

Statistics
To ornament or fashion simple items out of Thresh carapace, the crafter needs to make a DC 20 Craft check. Thresh carapace weapons, armor and shields are crafted with +10 to the Craft DC. Items fashioned from Thresh carapace have a weight reduction of 20% as opposed to their iron or steel counterparts.

Thresh carapace does not degrade or corrode from any kind of acid.

Thresh carapace has 20 hit points per inch of thickness and hardness 16.

Value
Thresh carapace armor costs four times what masterwork armor of that type usually costs. Thresh carapace shields cost 10 times as much as regular masterwork shields. The following types of armor can be made from Thresh carapace.

Thresh carapace ammunition costs an additional 200 gp per quiver.