No Love For Armour?

[hcobb]

All my wizard wants for X-mass is Water Armor.

[Shostak]

Originally Posted by hcobb

All my wizard wants for X-mass is Water Armor.

I don't even know what that is supposed to mean.

[hcobb]

ITL Index needs to add the entry: Water Armor 98.

[FireHorse]

If we can have ultra-rare materials, then I want my armor made from Kevlar.

Err, I mean… Kevlarite. Ium. Kevlaritium. Yeah, that's the stuff. Weight of hardened leather, strength of fine steel plate. Handcrafted by secret (and patented) processes known only to a reclusive enclave of Dwarven armor-smiths, whom only wealthy kingdoms have enough gold to hire.

[hcobb]

Goblin sized Water Armor is 9.8 pounds so c.f. Repair at ITL 25.

But remember that a good guy in shining fine plate armor doesn't stop a goblin with a staff so don't leave home without your club (or whatever) staff.

[Jeff Lord]

Re: "Water Armor"

From ITL pg. 98:

"The drawback is that once it’s damaged, the rips slowly
lengthen, and no one knows how to fix it."

Not even wizards who know the Repair spell. But hey, YMMV.

[KevinJ]

Originally Posted by FireHorse

If we can have ultra-rare materials, then I want my armor made from Kevlar.

Err, I mean… Kevlarite. Ium. Kevlaritium. Yeah, that's the stuff. Weight of hardened leather, strength of fine steel plate. Handcrafted by secret (and patented) processes known only to a reclusive enclave of Dwarven armor-smiths, whom only wealthy kingdoms have enough gold to hire.

Aramid fibers are of little protection from cutting or sharp stabbing weapons. The best Kevlar armor still requires a .002 inch thick titanium steel stab plate to stop a knife from killing you.

[hcobb]

To have a reasonable chance against the branded light crossbow bolts (which have no historical counterpart) with non-magical protections you really need to layer Shield Expertise on top of Fine Plate. (Also non-historical, outside of jousting.)

[larsdangly]

I would add it isn't clear there is a Fantasy Trip precedent for 'branded crossbow bolts'. My reading of the relevant rules doesn't support this idea.

But it is true that there are several attacks in the game (heavy crossbow, arquebus, charging pike axe, battle axe, great sword, charging lance) that can only be mostly deflected most of the time by someone in fine plate with some sort of additional 'add ons' like Toughness talent an/or a small shield (preferably with shield expertise). You can get to 8 with no shield, and that is pretty good against the average result from most of these (and makes you functionally 'bullet proof' against spears, draw-bow arrows and other light hand weapons). I find that to be pretty close to historical uses and benefits of late-medieval plate armors.