Studded Leather Armor

[Bill_in_IN]

Originally Posted by Steve Plambeck

This sounds like what would be called Lamellar Armour, which is made with attaching overlapping plates to cloth or leather. Imperial Chinese armies wore the best of these, using bronze plates sewn to leather. Different cultures at different times made Lamellar Armour not just from bronze, but from sea shell, turtle shell, horn, bone, and even pangolin scales (the latter being really expensive and reserved for royalty). What we usually call scale armour is the heir to this design, just made with iron or steel plates. Lamellar could be quite advantageous to wizards.

In TFT Chainmail seems under-priced for all the time and work that really goes into it. Lamellar, or Scale, could readily take it's place in TFT, with Chain kicked up to stopping 4 hits and costing more than it does now.

We liked the idea of having the same hits stopped as chain mail with the leather MA adjustment.