Armor Class.Mail+Plate+Cloth in harmony to protect the user in D&D or MtG, Arrnor has layers like an onion.
Looks like a Varangian Guard
>>98629246It's all fun and games until you fall in mud and now you need 1000 man hours to clean all the surface areas that shit has and deal with rust
>>98629272leather also goes back if you don't oil it
>>98629246lmao look at that retard lol
>>98629272That's why we invented the first washing machines, to clean mail. They were literally small barrels being turned over a sort of spit.
>>98632294metal chaffs on skin, anon.
>>98632759skin's metal too you can't win
>>98629272And the fucking sweat making everything moldy or smelly. And washing it is a cancer on your time, especially with Brigandine, aka rot plates.
>>98629246In OD&D, BECMI, 1e and 2e D&D that would have been classed as "Plate Mail" roughly the equivalent to AC 17 unenchanted with only "Field Plate" (AC 18) and "Full Plate" (AC 19) armors being better. Suit of Field Plate and Full Plate were described as having cloth padding as part of the armor as well.
>>98629246Just imagine they all stack to reach the next level. Heavy armor has all three medium also has light light is just itself.
>>98632778This anon craves the strength and certainty of steel.
>>98633542steel rusts.
>>98629246>or MtGai pajeet thread?
>>98629246>Helmet: Medium Plate Pot Helm + Fine Mail face and neck covering - Total DR 6 for the skull, 3 for the face and neck. Total weight 5 lbs>Body (Arms, Torso, Upper Legs): Padded Cloth Armor (DR 1*, weight 12 lbs) + Fine Mail Armor (DR 4*, weight 30 lbs) + Light Segmented Plate Armor (DR 3, Weight 32 lbs) - Total DR 9. Total Weight 74 lbs.>Shin guards: Light Segmented Plate Armor - DR 3, weight 8 lbs>Total Armor weight: 87 lbs.> -2 DX penalty from layering Armor twice (can be reduced to 1 with a Perk)While the weight and DX penalties are substantial, DR 8 over most of your body would make you almost impervious to attacks from other humans who don't have above average ST and/or heavy weapons.
>>98629246>PlateThat's lamellar. It's what Gygax misunderstood to be "splint mail" in the same way that he misunderstood a brigantine as "studded leather armour" or turcopole mercenaries as some kind of elite temple guard.>>98629249Kyrie Eleison!
>>98629246>plateBut it is not.
>>98637405>"studded leather armour"lolGygax should do more medieval reanactments....
Thick enough fur counts a armor & drip
>>98635352>His steel rustsngmi with your shit-tier metallurgy
>>98629246I love actual historical armour, the mix of actual effectiveness and colours that pop culture forgot existed is so nice
>>98636782What's the layering perk?
>>98640416It's kind of hard to attend that sort of thing when you've been dead since 2008.
>>98632751Roman sargeants used a barrel of sand to clean their Lorica Hamata as part of their exercise regimen.
>>98650632Get thee to an armory!
>>98651946Or live in the middle of America
This is how you should armor classhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPZvUERoCC0
>>98650726Suit Faniliarity (Layered Armor), but it's from a Dungeon Fantasy supplement
