Compiled Weapons, Armor and Shields Project

[Esko Halttunen <esko.halttunen@luukku.com>]

Hello, all.

Some of you may remember me mentioning on DQN-list a project I had going 
a few months back, one to compile all weapons, armor and shields from 
the various editions of DQ and a couple of fan-made supplements such as 
the PBA into one comprehensive listing. Well, that's done, and uploaded 
to the files section of the DQ-Rules group. Grab a copy, read it through 
and then pick it apart. The document is in MS Word, Open Office and 
plain text format. Plain text files containing tables are in duplicate, 
because my chosen text edit program, Crimson Editor, just does not agree 
with Wordpad on table formatting, they both screw up column alignment in 
a file optimized for the other, so there are two versions.

Besides the actual document (referred to as CWT, short for Compiled 
Weapons Table), there is a readme file and another text file with a 
detailed breakdown of what has changed from 2E (or 1E) and the reasons why.

The weapons list is expanded from what it was, there is a large section 
on oriental weapons besides the new additions to the basic list, and 
some rules (e.g. crossbows) have been heavily revamped so that they are 
actually useful now. Armor list is twice as long as it used to be, with 
old armors from 1E making a comeback and completely new armor types 
introduced. Shield list is relatively intact, but there are a lot more 
defensive weapons now, not just the main gauche, and there are optional 
rules for martial arts.

I'd appreciate feedback on this and if you find any typos, please report 
them so I can correct them.

Cheers,
Edi