Time to Craft Armor
To determine the time it takes to make a piece of armor, take the armor's AC. The number that the
AC is under 10, multiplied by two weeks, is the time it takes an apprentice
(supervised and aided by an Overseer) to craft the item.
Thus, a set of chain mail (AC 5) is calculated this way: 10 – 5 = 5; 5 x two
weeks = ten weeks. It takes 10 weeks to make a suit of chain mail.
Standard Costs to Manufacture Armor
Armor
| Retail
| Materials
| Time
| Apprentice &
| Total
|
Piece
| Value
| Cost (gp)
| Taken
| Overseer
| Cost
|
Banded Mail
| 200
| 100
| 12 wk
| 48 *
| 148
|
Brigandine
| 120
| 60
| 8 wk
| 32 *
| 92
|
Bronze plate
| 400
| 200
| 12 wk
| 114 **
| 314
|
Chain mail
| 75
| 38
| 10 wk
| 20 ***
| 58
|
Field Plate
| 2000
| 1000
| 16 wk
| 304 +
| 1304
|
Full plate
| 7000
| 3500
| 18 wk
| 342 +
| 3842
|
Helm/great
| 30
| 15
| 4 wk
| 8 ***
| 23
|
Helm/basinet
| 8
| 4
| 1 wk
| 2 ***
| 6
|
Hide armor
| 15
| 7
| 8 wk
| 8 ++
| 15
|
Leather armor
| 5
| 1 +++
| 4 wk
| 4 ++
| 5
|
Padded armor
| 4
| 0 +++
| 4 wk
| 4 ++
| 4
|
Plate mail
| 600
| 300
| 14 wk
| 133 **
| 433
|
Ring mail
| 100
| 50
| 6 wk
| 24 *
| 74
|
Scale mail
| 120
| 60
| 8 wk
| 32 *
| 92
|
Shield/body
| 10
| 5
| 2 wk
| 4 ***
| 9
|
Shield/buckler
| 1
| 0+++
| 2 wk
| 1 ++
| 1
|
Shield/medium
| 7
| 3
| 2 wk
| 4 ***
| 7
|
Shield/small
| 3
| 1
| 2 wk
| 2 ***
| 3
|
Splint mail
| 80
| 40
| 12 wk
| 24 ***
| 64
|
Studded lthr
| 20
| 10
| 6 wk
| 6 ++
| 16
|
Barding:
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Chain
| 500
| 250
| 10 wk
| 190 +
| 440
|
| Full plate
| 2000
| 1000
| 16 wk
| 304 +
| 1304
|
| Full scale
| 1000
| 500
| 8 wk
| 152 +
| 652
|
| Half brig.
| 500
| 250
| 6 wk
| 114 +
| 364
|
| Half padded
| 100
| 50
| 2 wk
| 38 +
| 88
|
| Half scale
| 500
| 250
| 8 wk
| 152 +
| 402
|
| Lthr/Padded
| 150
| 75
| 4 wk
| 75 +
| 150
|
* Two apprentices, no overseer
** One apprentice, ½ overseer
*** One apprentice, no overseer
+ Two apprentices, one overseer
++ ½ apprentice, no overseer
+++ Cost reduced because of easy availability of materials; cost of "0 gp"
means cost is a negligible
For pieces of armor which don't grant specific AC benefits (like helmets),
figure the time at 1 week per 7.5 gp value. Thus, a great helm would take four
weeks to make (it costs 30 gp); a basinet, one week and a few hours of the eighth
day (it costs 8 gp).
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