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See Armor Descriptions for details.

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Armor Sizes

The equipment list reflects the price of a suit of armor (including an appropriate helmet) made for any normal player character race. Although a halfling is much smaller than a human and needs a smaller suit, there are fewer armorers available to meet such specialized needs. Thus, the armor for a halfling is as expensive as that for a human.

When armor is found during the course of an adventure, the players should note the creature who wore the armor previously. While a human-sized character might be able to wear the armor of a gnoll, it will do little good for a halfling. Likewise, the armor of a giant is of little use to anyone.

Armor size also affects the weight of the armor. The weights listed on the table are for human-sized (Medium) armors. Small armor weighs half the amount listed, while large armor weighs 50% more.

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Armor of Unusual Materials

With the exception of bronze plate mail, it is assumed that all metal armors are made from a fairly common yet sturdy form of steel. However, this need not always be the case. Since this is a fantasy campaign, there is nothing to prevent armors being made from rare and fantastic metals. Any metal armor can be made from one of the materials listed below.

Metal	AC Adjustment	Weight Adj.	Cost Multiplier
Adamantite	+1	-25%	x500
Bronze	-1	0	x2/3
Fine Steel	0	-10%	x2
Gold	-4	+100%	x3
Iron	0	+25%	0
Silver	-2 1	0	x2

¹ Silver armor, while softer than iron or steel, may provide additional protection against certain supernatural creatures such as lycanthropes or wraiths. Or, at least, a lot of adventurers believe that…

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Armor Penalties

Although armor is a necessary survival tool for all those engaging in combat, the wearing of armor is not without its drawbacks.

Metal armor interferes with the operation of psionic abilities. A character wearing metal armor suffers a penalty to all psionic power scores equal to one-half the AC bonus granted by the armor (thus Banded Mail would impose a -3 penalty to all of the psionicist’s power scores).

Metal armor similarly interferes with the functioning of wizardly magic. A wizard (or bard or similar character) wearing metal armor has their effective casting level decreased by one-half the AC bonus granted by the armor (thus a wizard in Scale Mail would cast spells as if he were 2 levels lower), to a minimum caster level of 1st. Note that a 1st-level wizard is thus immune to this drawback, and encouraged to use armor to defend himself.

Climbing attempts, and all Balance based non-weapon proficiencies suffer a -1 penalty per 10 lbs of armor worn (thus Field Plate imposes a -6 penalty). In addition, they suffer a -1 penalty per level of Encumbrance above unencumbered. These penalties are cumulative.

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Armor	Base AC	vs Bludgeoning	vs Piercing	vs Slashing	Cost	Weight
Light Leather	+1	+1	+0	+1	5gp	5 lbs
Gullet Guardian	+1	+1	+1	+1	30 gp	5 lbs
Padded	+2	+2	+0	+2	4gp	10 lbs
Leather	+2	+2	+0	+2	5gp	15 lbs
Light Studded	+2	+2	+3	+4	20gp	15 lbs
Cord armor	+2	+2	+3	+2	10gp	15 lbs
Studded leather	+3	+3	+4	+5	20gp	25 lbs
Gnome Workman’s Armor	+3	+3	+1	+3	20gp	15 lbs
Spiked leather	+3	+3	+1	+3	30gp	25 lbs
Leather cuirass	+3	+3	+1	+3	50gp	20 lbs
Ring mail	+4	+3	+4	+4	100gp	30 lbs
Hide	+4	+4	+2	+4	15gp	30 lbs
Breastplate	+4	+4	+4	+7	80gp	25 lbs
Brigandine	+4	+4	+5	+5	120gp	35 lbs
Scale mail	+4	+4	+5	+4	120gp	40 lbs
Metal lamellar	+5	+4	+5	+6	250gp	35 lbs
Chain mail	+5	+3	+5	+7	75gp	40 lbs
Elven Chain Mail	+5	+3	+5	+7	750gp	20 lbs
Silenced Elven Chain	+5	+3	+5	+7	800gp	25 lbs
Doublemail	+6	+4	+6	+8	266gp	50 lbs
Splint mail	+6	+6	+7	+8	80gp	40 lbs
Banded mail	+6	+7	+6	+8	200gp	35 lbs
Bronze plate	+6	+6	+6	+9	400gp	45 lbs
Plate mail	+7	+7	+7	+10	600gp	50 lbs
Dwarven Plate	+8	+8	+8	+11	600gp	75 lbs
Field plate	+8	+8	+9	+11	2000gp	60 lbs
Full plate	+9	+9	+12	+13	4000gp	70 lbs

Helmets	Head AC	Cost	Weight	Hear Noises/Surprise
Leather helm	12	1gp	2 lbs	-0
Cap	14	4gp	3 lbs	-0
Mail coif	15	10gp	5 lbs	-0
Open-faced	16	12gp	7 lbs	-1
Close-faced	17	20gp	10 lbs	-2
Great helm	19	80gp	20 lbs	-3

Shields	Attacks Defended	Cost	Weight
Bracers	+1 AC, 1 per round	35 gp	1 lbs
Buckler	+1 AC, 1 per round	1gp	3 lbs
Small	+1 AC	3gp	5 lbs
Medium	+2 AC	7gp	10 lbs
Body	+4 AC	10gp	15 lbs