Equipment

Markets and Currency. Listed prices assume a well-stocked city: 10 CP equal 1 SP, and 10 SP equal 1 GP.

Availability and exchange

These lists are game tools, not a full economic model. Their prices and selection assume a prosperous city with organised markets. Towns carry less, villages mainly offer local goods, and isolated settlements may demand higher prices or barter.

For barter or a contested bargain, make an opposed Trade test between buyer and seller. The result sets the price or terms; it does not make unavailable goods appear.

Equipment has consequences too. Encumbrance slows an overloaded traveller, displayed wealth attracts thieves, and openly carried arms can provoke fear, legal scrutiny, or the local watch.

Weapons and Ammunition. A weapon lists its damage, minimum STR/DEX, ENC, size, and cost; melee and thrown attacks add DM, while bows, slings, and crossbows do not. Also known as close combat weapons, ranged weapons, ammunition, weapon size.

If your STR or DEX is below a weapon’s listed minimum, attacks and Parries with it are at -1P. Being below both still gives only -1P.

Weapons come in four Sizes: Light, Medium, Heavy, and Huge. Size decides how much a winning Parry blocks; see Parry Size.

Close Combat weapons

• 1H: needs one hand. 2H: needs two hands.
• Flex: can be used in two hands for +2 damage and a STR requirement 2 lower than listed.
• Set: can be set against a Charge.
• Thrown: can use its ranged profile without an improvised-weapon penalty.

Primitive or improvised versions of listed weapons deal 1 less damage, to a minimum of 1.

Ranged weapons

Ranged Combat explains Range, reloading crossbows, and cover.

• Close: within 2 metres, attack with Close Combat and the listed damage.
• Thrown: the ranged attack adds DM.
• Missile: bows, crossbows, and slings do not add DM.

A small shield can be strapped to the arm while you carry a 2H ranged weapon, but it cannot attack, Parry, or provide Active Guard until you stop wielding the ranged weapon.

Ammunition

Armour. Armour subtracts its fixed AP from damage; its ENC reduces Combat Order and contributes to carried load. Also known as armor, armour points, AP.

Armour Points (AP) reduce incoming damage after any Parry. Armour ENC counts toward carried load and is also subtracted from the wearer’s base Combat Order.

• Leather includes padded, boiled leather, or layered linen protection.
• Ringmail is a padded suit reinforced with sewn metal rings.
• Scalemail is a padded suit covered with overlapping metal scales.
• Chainmail is a suit of interlinked metal rings.
• Platemail is fitted steel plate over a chain backing.

Size and fit

• Armour made for SIZ 1–5 has half the listed cost and ENC; armour for SIZ 21 or more has double.
• Ill-fitting plate can be worn at double ENC. Other armour must fit well enough for the Gamemaster to allow it.
• Armour cannot be layered to combine AP.

General Gear. Adventuring gear provides its listed capacity or situational benefit; a Healing Kit has five uses and a torch goes out only on an attack fumble. Also known as supplies, healing kit, torch.

Containers and supports

Containers make their contents manageable, but the contents keep their ENC.

Tools

• Block and Tackle: needs at least 10 metres of rope. Grants +1B to Mechanisms tests involving large traps, and enables suitable engineering tasks with Mechanisms.
• Climbing Kit: +1B to Athletics tests to climb.
• Crowbar: +1B to brute-force Athletics tests. As a weapon, a club at -1P.
• Healing Kit: five Healing or Surgery attempts. Each attempt uses one, whether it succeeds or fails.
• Fish Hook: lets Natural Lore catch fish without an equipment penalty.
• Fishing Kit: +1B to Natural Lore tests to catch fish.
• Flint and Tinder: starts an ordinary fire in one minute, with no Natural Lore test in normal conditions.
• Lock Picks: +1B to Mechanisms tests to open locks.
• Hammer, Mining Pick, or Spade: as a weapon, a club at -1P. A hammer or mining pick can strike hard objects without automatically being ruined.
• Scythe: as a weapon, a polearm at -1P.

Light and fuel

• A candle burns for one hour, lights a 1-metre radius, and goes out in more than a slight breeze.
• A lantern burns for two hours on one flask of oil and lights a 3-metre radius.
• Spilled and ignited lamp oil sustains a small fire for one minute.
• A torch burns for one hour and lights a 3-metre radius. As a weapon, it attacks as a club at -1P but deals 1D4 fire damage instead of club damage. Only an attack fumble puts it out.

Transport, Food, and Lodging. Common animals, vehicles, fares, meals, and lodging use the listed baseline city prices. Also known as animals, mounts, food, lodging.

These are baseline prices in a settled market. Training, scarcity, pedigree, danger, and local custom can change them.

Animals and transport

Food and lodging