AntMac wrote:It would be awesome chain mail material, wouldn't it. Light as a , well, as a beard, and water proof/rustless/acid proof, fireproof, though of course porous as all hell, so it wouldn't help the person wearing it that much.
Depending on the weave it could be like a knit sweater or coarse canvas, so while it wouldn't protect you from high ambient heat, it would help somewhat against a quick blast of it like a fireball. The porosity of it has an upside in that it "breathes" so you wouldn't overheat in warm weather as quickly as you would in plate. It would be great as the outer layer for armored gloves since you would have almost full dexterity. Chain mail usually has to be done as mittens unless you spring for the kind with extra-tiny links.
RedwoodElf wrote:Probably the magic of his crossbows is simply that they're self reloading, and as such really don't have an IME.
No, we saw him do it manually with a pair of some kind of quick-reload holsters he wears on either side of his belt. With two crossbows that can be quick-loaded once, that gives him four volleys to soften up opponents. Each bow looks like it fires eight bolts at once per volley in a slight spread pattern. This gives a maximum of thirty-two bolts worth of damage he can do before he has to sit down and reload both bows and holsters. The bolts themselves don't look like they do much damage individually, but sheer numbers in that spray means he's pretty much always going to hit something and do a good bit of damage. A good weapon for someone expecting to strike first against large numbers of opponents and isn't worried about hitting allies.
