I cant buy weapons,armor,ingots,ore,leather or leather strips from vendors.
I cant use looted armor or weapons.
All armor and weaponry needs to be crafted by my self.
Game plan is to move clockwise around the map and do all quest in towns and cities before moving to next city. Im 5 hours in the game and i've only been able to craft full leather armor set and iron sword + bow.
I do have plenty of ore but haven't found smelting thingie yeat.
So far i have enjoyed the game a lot more than on a regular playthrough, were my character was wearing uber armor and weaponry by the time i was level 10.