Animal skin

An animal skin is a body armour that is functionally identical to a robe, with 2 base AC and no encumbrance.

Unlike robes, animal skins are not normally generated with egos outside of a few special vaults, such as in Ice caves.

Desirability

This item exists as flavour for Berserkers and some enemies (such as spriggan berserkers) where a robe would be less thematic.

Berserkers, as melee-focused characters with high strength, should switch to a heavier armour almost immediately. For other characters, there will usually be better options available. A +2 animal skin is better than a +0 robe, at least.

	Image
Mundane	File:Animal skin1.png
Magical	File:Animal skin2.png
Artifact	File:Animal skin3.png
	Unrandart Animal Skin
The Skin of Zhor	File:Skin of zhor.png

History

• Prior to 0.12, several monsters (sheep, yak, death yak) could leave these when butchered.