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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8870096" data-attributes="member: 57383">I prefer them without shields but frankly don't care whether it says (natural armor) or (scale mail) in their Armor Class if we keep the "Equipment crumbling to dust" part of the original monster.It makes no difference to the mechanics and I was assuming a Dragon Warrior monstrosity with dragon scale skin would look identical to a humanoid Dragon Warrior wearing dragon scale mail.However, if the armor doesn't disintegrate then it becomes very valuable loot. Immunity to a damage type is pretty meaty after all. I don't want the PCs stripping four suits of +4 scale mail of fire immunity off the bodies of the Gold Dragon Warriors they just defeated.If we use dragon scale mail, it'd place some restrictions on what Armour Class we could use. Assuming the DEXes match the dragons and dragon mail has to be at least the minimum magic armor plus of +1 if it's also enchanted with (breath type) damage immunity, then a Dragon Warrior would have to be at least AC 15 (+1 scale mail, DEX 10) and might go up to, say, AC 21 (+5 scale mail, DEX 14).However, I'd rather make it natural armor as it makes it easier to explain why it can't be stolen or looted and dusts away upon death. Besides, if it's a literal suit of armor that raises weird questions like: what does a naked Dragon Warrior look like? What happens if they wear another Dragon Warrior's armor? Or a different non-draconic armor, like an ordinary Chain Shirt?</blockquote>

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