[CF-Devel] bracers

[Peter Mardahl]

In D&D--and in crossfire-- bracers are treated specially.

They set a "worst-case" AC instead of adding to AC like everything else.

So if you have bracers +3, your "worst" AC with them on would be 6
(with no dex bonus).  If you are naked except for bracers, 
you'll have an ac of 6.

If you put a robe on (ac +1), you'd normally have an ac of 9.
However, with the bracers, you get 6.

Now, if you put on +3 dragonmail (total AC increase of 9)
you'll have an ac of 1:  the bracers will have ceased to
matter.

The meaning of -5 bracers is that
your "worst" AC would be 15.

Perhaps this is senseless, but that is how it is done.

PeterM


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      I've noticed that my bracers do nothing to my AC.  I looked at the
     
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      code in fix_player() in common/living.c, and I found that bracers are
     
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      not treated like other types of armour.  I don't recall seeing this
     
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      documented anywhere.  How exactly are bracers supposed to affect your
     
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      AC?  As it is now, even my acid corroded -5 bracers don't change my AC
     
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      on bit.
     
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      --PC
     
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