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Birdsey and me have worked out a new way of handling armor in Egoboo. Armor is now grabbable and can even be put into your inventory (like shoes or a necklace).

This opens for new tactics like carrying around an extra suit of armor for special occasions (light armor when speed is important or heavy armor when you are in combat).

Found an armor that doesn't fit you? You can still bring it back to town and sell it for half price or give it to one of your other characters/friends!

This also means we can use the random treasure system to make armor suits randomly drop from chests/monsters!

Paladin Armor


Adventurer Armor


Soldier Armor


Rogue Armor



We are missing the model for a wizard, healer and archaeologist/tourist armor since they will need their own unique models..

These look really nice! But does that occupy another inventory slot?

Carryable armor? How nice!
OMGWTFEPIC.
I always wished something like this would exist.

It only takes another inventory slot if you decide to carry 2 suits of armor. The armor you are wearing doesn't count

LOVE IT. The only possible upgrade I can think of is some sort of menu for changing body-part-specific clothing, such as chestplates and helmets and gloves and frilly pink tutus (+10 daze to human NPCs when worn by an attractive female character).

Body-part-specific clothing? Since when? Why?

Or +20 sleaze damage?

Nice. My only concern is that there's a lot of item-swapping taking place now in regular gameplay, which is one aspect of Egoboo that always bothered me. I like the limitation on inventory space, I just don't like the way you actually interact with your inventory, since it stopped being practical when we started expanding and adding gear.

Unless we already have some kind of new inventory menu or something in the latest build/in the works, in that case, ignore what I just said. I really ought to check and see how the game looks like right now.

Also, some of these icons can be improved. Maybe I'll look into making a few next weekend.

I already once suggested a way of deactivating selected inventory items within some sort of menu to prevent them from being included into your item switching cycle. What about that?

The icons extremely remind me of Vulture's Eye, by the way.

If this hasn't been made clear: The armors don't actually take inventory space. When you pick one up and activate it, you swap your current armor with the one you are holding. So if you are wearing leather and activating a chainmail, you will now wear chainmail and hold a leather armor in your hands. You can discard the old leather armor and leave it behind, using no inventory space. (unless you want to bring it back to town for some extra cash)

Many of the icons were taken from http://www.opengameart.com, a site with free art for open source projects.

Oh wow, that makes so much sense and fits really well and any gripes I may have had are now voided. Nice work.

I made Healer armor icon things:

How epicly awesome.

I especially like the armor icons because I now have something proper for PnP charsheets.
Aranym's egoboo-styled armor icons were fail.

woodmouse wrote:I made Healer armor icon things:

Cool. Now we just need a model for the healer armor

Agent of Dread wrote:Body-part-specific clothing? Since when? Why?

IDK. Many other RPGs do it. Maybe not.

Zefz wrote:If this hasn't been made clear: The armors don't actually take inventory space. When you pick one up and activate it, you swap your current armor with the one you are holding. So if you are wearing leather and activating a chainmail, you will now wear chainmail and hold a leather armor in your hands. You can discard the old leather armor and leave it behind, using no inventory space. (unless you want to bring it back to town for some extra cash)

Many of the icons were taken from http://www.opengameart.com, a site with free art for open source projects.

You, sir, are a genius.