Armor
Armor serves as an important protective layer in combat. It acts as modified Damage Reduction for combat damage. Each type of armor reacts differently to different types of damage, the primary three being Piercing, Slashing, and Bludgeoning.
In the table below, each armor has a column dedicate to each damage type. The number in the space determines how much protection the armor grants the wearer from this type of damage. The text after the number dictates what happens once damage has exceeded this threshold. Common descriptions are:
- "Sublethal": Damage over the threshold is converted into Sublethal Damage.
- "Wearer": Damage over the threshold damages the wearer of the armor, but leaves the armor undamaged.
- "Both": Damage over the threshold damages the wearer of the armor and the armor as well.
- "Both (slashing/piercing/bludgeoning)": Damage over the threshold damages the wearer of the armor and the armor as well, but converts it to the appropriate type for the wearer. If the armor is destroyed by this blow, the damage is not converted.
- "Slashing": Damage over the threshold is converted to slashing damage. No further DR is applied.
- "Piercing": Damage over the threshold is converted to piercing damage. No further DR is applied.
- "Bludgeoning": Damage over the threshold is converted to bludgeoning damage. No further DR is applied.
Sublethal Damage is reduced by twice the normal amount for the appropriate type of damage (almost all sublethal is bludgeoning), and never damages the armor.
If your dexterity is higher than the Effective Dex rating for a suit of armor, your dexterity is effectively reduced to that amount when wearing that armor.
The deflection bonus of armor is a bonus to the wearer's AC that is due to the armor's shape or design.
| Armor | Slashing | Piercing | Bludgeoning | Deflection | Health | Hardness (vs bludgeoning) |
Effective Dex/ Armor Penalty |
Price(uV) | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light Armor | |||||||||
| Padded Armor | 4/both(bludgeoning) | 0/both | 4/wearer | -- | 8 | 6 | No | 5 | 10 lb |
| Leather Armor | 5/bludgeoning | 2/both | 2/wearer | -- | 10 | 8 | No | 10 | 15 lb |
| Ring Leather Armor | 8/bludgeoning | 4/both | 2/wearer | -- | 12 | 10 | 12/-1 | 15 | 20 lb |
| Chain Shirt | 15/bludgeoning | 6/both(bludgeoning) | 2/wearer | -- | 20 | 15 | 11/-1 | ? | 25 lb |
| Brigandine | 10/bludgeoning | 5/both | 4/wearer | -- | 10 | 15 | 10/-1 | ? | 20 lb |
| Heavy Armor | |||||||||
| Jack of Plate | 6/sublethal | 8/sublethal | 6/wearer | -- | 20 | 14 | 8/-3 | ? | 25 lb |
| Scale Mail | 10/bludgeoning | 4/sublethal | 8/wearer | -- | 30 | 8 | 8/-2 | ? | 30 lb |
| Lamellar Scale | 10/bludgeoning | 10/sublethal | 8/wearer | -- | 25 | 12 | 9/-2 | ? | 25 lb |
| Chainmail | 20/bludgeoning | 8/both(bludgeoning) | 2/wearer | -- | 15 | 15 | 8/-5 | ? | 40 lb |
| Weave Chain | 20/bludgeoning | 8/both(bludgeoning) | 4/wearer | -- | 20 | 15 | 7/-5 | ? | 45 lb |
| Splinted Mail | 15/bludgeoning | 2/sublethal | 4/wearer | -- | 25 | 16 | 8/-4 | ? | 45 lb |
| Breastplate | 4/bludgeoning | 4/both | 2/both | +2 | 20 | 16 (2) | 10/-3 | ? | 45 lb |
| War Armor | |||||||||
| Tight Chain | 20/bludgeoning | 10/both(bludgeoning) | 2/wearer | -- | 20 | 15 | 7/-6 | ? | 50 lb |
| Half Plate | 20/sublethal | 10/both | 2/both | +2 | 20 | 14 (4) | 6/-6 | ? | 50 lb |
| Full Plate | 20/sublethal | 10/both | 2/both | +4 | 25 | 14 (2) | 7/-7 | ? | 55 lb |
| Enforced Full Plate | 20/sublethal | 12/both | 4/both | +6 | 25 | 14 (4) | 6/-8 | ? | 60 lb |
| Additions | |||||||||
| May be added to Jack of Plate, Scale Mail, Lamellar Scale, Splinted Mail, Breastplate, Half Plate, Full Plate, or Enforced Full Plate | |||||||||
| Short Spikes | - | - | - | -- | - | - | -1 | ? | 2 lb |
| Long Spikes | - | - | - | -- | - | - | -2 | ? | 6 lb |
| Joint Protection | - | - | - | +1 | - | - | Same/-1 | ? | 4 lb |
Wearing Multiple Pieces of Armor
In general, a character may wear either one suit of heavy or war armor, and one set of light armor, but there are certain exceptions. A breastplate cannot be worn with anything else. Jack of Plate may be worn in conjunction with any other heavy armor except for a Breastplate (it works very well with Chainmail) or with tight chain, though it cannot be worn with any light armor. Leather and Ringed Leather Armor cannot be worn together, but any other combination of two light armors is possible.
