A year later, this is still a big thought in my head. But I doubt I can get it off the ground alone...
So it might be best to break it into smaller, bite-sized bits. Perhaps with the 10 Minutes of Twilight adventure as an initial release?
That one is a tough nut to crack. And it's -so- binary in it's structure that you really can't stop that feeling from happening.
You could pull the Spring Dawning or Baldur's Gate 3 method and have everything go down in media res so that's the -plot- of the adventure/campaign, which gives your...
So I'm in the shower this morning, using a scrubbing towel to abrade all the flesh off my bones in an attempt to feel softer and also because it's absolutely amazing at scratching the heck out of any itches I might have on my back, having setting thoughts. Specifically how a couple paid DMs I...
Brigandine is the armor. Looks like this!
Early D&D designers saw it and just saw leather with some studs in it, and knowing that punks wore leather jackets with studs or spikes, assumed it was the same thing!
But this is what it looks like on the inside:
As far as the cloth/leather...
That was pretty much my thought process, yeah. I knew A5e updated "Studded Leather" to "Leather Brigandine" which is what it -actually- is, and saw Hauberk and went "That's a chain shirt!" and left it at that.
Though, in fairness to EN Publishing: The chain shirt people imagine was never a...
The goofy grin on my face the entire way through reading this...
I'm so happy you and your group enjoyed the adventure! That's everything we hoped for!