Gold dragon hide

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Name	Gold dragon hide
Size to wear	Medium, Large, Big
Armour Class	4
Encumbrance rating	-17
Maximum Enchantment	+0
Grants	rF+, rC+, rPois
Time to Wear	5

The extremely tough and heavy skin of a golden dragon, covered in shimmering golden scales. It confers resistance to fire, cold and poison on its wearer, but provides little of its fabled protection against blows unless enchanted.

Gold dragon hide is a heavy armour which can be obtained by butchering a golden dragon corpse. It provides poor physical defense and comes with a heavy encumbrance rating, but also provides a rank of fire, cold, and poison resistance. Enchanting it with scroll of enchant armour turns it into a gold dragon armour, one of the most effective armours in the game for purely physical strength-based characters.

It takes 5 turns to wear or remove a gold dragon hide.

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History

In 0.14, gold dragon hides will have an encumbrance rating of -27.