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Originally Posted by bocephus
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Armor. pretty much moves from low ST to higher ST.
Cloth - casters and sometimes rogues and sometimes poor people.
Leather - occasionally casters, generally rogues, druids & bards often rangers starting clerics.
Chain - occasionally rangers & clerics almost always starting melee types.
Plate - generally the "Tank" archetype, paladins, and sometimes clerics.
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This is not at all how DFRPG handles armour.
Cost is in fact the biggest drawbacks of the heavier/ better types of armour and then weight.
In fact the heavier types of armour are much more efficient than cloth/leather and chain.
In fact a 'tank' will usually wear cloth/leather under Plate for even more DR. See spider silk for light and very good. It should be worn by all rich PCs barring something better - read magic
Leather and cloth are treated as identical in DFRPG. So there is no distinction there at all. Leather isn't really a great thing IRL or DFRPG - Low Tech goes into this a lot (for actual specific leather) which is where DFRPG Armour comes from.
Mail is a step down in DR from Plate, but weights only marginally less . The big difference is cost. A starting PC might wear chain precisely because they can't afford Plate, but if you have $ you would never choose mail (barring magic), some stealth (read magic) mail or some other sort of reason, but it won't be weight.
There are no 'rangers' in DFRPG, but a strong scout would be much efficient to wear a magic, fine plate breast plate than leather chest. Once again cost is likely to be the limitation here given high ST on a Scout is actually pretty useful.
Given the danger of Skull hits in GURPS very high quality expensive magic helmets make a lot of sense on ALL PCs. They are relatively light and why wouldn't you want DR 10+ on your skull rather than a cloth skull piece which will do sweet FA when you get 1d6 armour piercing arrows to your skull.