rmcoen
Adventurer
(Minor Necromancy....)
so what did the "final" list end up as? I liked the conversation in this thread, taking categories of armors from around the world and categorizing them into a smallish number of groups, because I tend to get very granular and suddenly I've got 30ish armors on the table, and it isn't comprehensible to the players. Nor is it easy to remember, in play, that the hobgoblin archers' "ring on mail" has these characteristics, which are different from the bezanted the orcs are wearing, which is different from the "stonescaled mail" on the dwarves... and then every PC has his or her own armor type too. While my brain clamors for more details, more options, "this one trades AC for slash-DR, that one trades movement for crit protection, and this other one is 3 times heavier for +1 AC", my instincts say "The first three are Medium Armor, AC 14; the dwarf thing is Heavy, AC 17".
so what did the "final" list end up as? I liked the conversation in this thread, taking categories of armors from around the world and categorizing them into a smallish number of groups, because I tend to get very granular and suddenly I've got 30ish armors on the table, and it isn't comprehensible to the players. Nor is it easy to remember, in play, that the hobgoblin archers' "ring on mail" has these characteristics, which are different from the bezanted the orcs are wearing, which is different from the "stonescaled mail" on the dwarves... and then every PC has his or her own armor type too. While my brain clamors for more details, more options, "this one trades AC for slash-DR, that one trades movement for crit protection, and this other one is 3 times heavier for +1 AC", my instincts say "The first three are Medium Armor, AC 14; the dwarf thing is Heavy, AC 17".