The Point Always Beats the Edge Revisited and MA-compatible

[Gavynn]

Originally Posted by Icelander

I was just curious how anyone had gone about proving that studded leather was never used. I'm not really asserting that it was, you see, but I can't see how anyone would be able to be certain.

I'll defer to Dan the Great on that one.

Originally Posted by Icelander

It depends. I'd have to see how big the rivets are on the inside. It could be DR 1, 2 or 3; all depending on how tough the leather is and how big the rivets are on the inside.

Well, this is neither here nor there, you can see the inside of the rivets on the inside back of the armor. It is clearly put together with very modern snap rivets (sometimes called pop rivets). I'd go with no additional protection of any kind for having those extra rivets on it.

Originally Posted by Icelander

I'd give that DR 3, sure, and call it reinforced leather. GURPS doesn't have stats for it yet, but I use something similar to Light Scale.

A tragedy to be sure. All hail the sometime-in-the-unknown-future release of Low Tech.