Rules for Weapon Quality in D&D 3E
Josh Horowitz
3/15/02

$Revision: 1.2 $
$Date: 2002/03/20 00:16:00 $

The standard D&D rules do not account for the quality or use of weapons.
It's kinda silly, really.  After 4 years of almost daily combat, your fighter
is still using the same long sword he purchased as a starting adventurer.  It
hasn't worn out, it hasn't broken, heck, it's never even needed repairs...

Weapon Quality and Use Chart

                Cost    Quality         Depreciation
Terrible        x.6     1-25            1d4+2
Cheap           x.8     25-45           1d4+1
Normal          1       45-65           1d4
Excellent       +150    65-85           1d4-1
Masterwork      +300    85-100          1d4-2

Cost -- When purchasing weapons, there are 5 basic levels of quality.  Use the
Cost factor to determine the base cost of the weapon.

Quality -- A value between 1-100.  When a critical hit or fumble is rolled,
roll the percentile dice against the weapons current quality value.  If the
percentile roll beats the quality value, the weapon breaks.

Depreciation -- If a weapon survives a quality roll, depreciate the weapons
quality value by this amount.

Enchantments -- Subtract 20% on the quality roll for each enchantment bonus.

Repair -- Weapons can be repaired to original quality value, but not higher.
Cost is: (pts. repaired/original pts) * original cost