Am I suppose to be able to make it out of leather? I was under the assumption that plate armor needs to be metal.
In history there were techniques to make a plate armor out of studded leather, so it's a real leather plate armor and I allowed dwarves to have it.
Example:
I just like it. And dwarves are fine armorcrafters IMO , that's why I added it.
I may leave it as it is and also I plan to add a civilization which masters leatherworking but is bad at metal smithing, thus they'll have mostly leather armor only.
Note that three-quarter armor (better protection for legs and a bit more sturdy) can be made out of metal only.
can't it cause a raging inferno
Sadly the current DF engine doesn't allow you to set something on fire with HEAT attack, it just burns througn armor nicely and boils victim's eyes and organs.
if you could give us a little more detail on the differences of your armor and weapons on the front page
Well, the main difference is in naming, also some "sharp" weapons have bigger critical chance and have less chance to be stuck. For now oriental humans have slightly better weaponry and western ones have some better armor, nothing too different.
Oh, and oriental humans have no "usual" mauls. Otsuchi is a large hammer which was used to break doors and gates so it's really heavy, and Kanabo is a large 2-handed mace which should be wielded by an extra strong human.
a brandistock
http://www.geocities.com/moro_villar/fotos/armas/Brandistock.jpgIt's a hollow staff with a retractable blade inside. When you stab something the blade flies out lead by it's weight and pierces the target. Just a type of spear (oh, and feather staff is almost the same thing; I just called the dwarven one Brandistock and it's a bit shorter and smaller in size than Feather staff which is used for humans, so dwarves can hold it in one hand).
Currently I'm playtesting Nords, I will put the new version here soon. They have better axes and hammers and warm leather armor mostly. However I have some problems with unique names for some items.
Oh, and I can't decide should I name humans or not. Let them be "humans" or name them "nippons", "nords" and such?