Banded mail

Nikosandros

Golden Procrastinator
I'm a bit confused by this item in MME. The description states that
A warrior in banded mail moves as quickly as one in leather armor.
However, according to the table, banded mail has chainmail as base type, it's heavy armor and has no special quality related to movement.
 

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You probably are aware of this, but chain mail (and most heavy armor) has a -1 to movement, while leather armor does not. The quoted text seems to state that it has no movement penalty. Or perhaps, following a more contorted logic, no skill penalty? Maybe someone else can confirm if that's the case, since I don't have access to the book.
 

I noticed that error on the preview, too.

Tables always trump text, if the two contradict, so it has a -1 speed penalty.

-O
 

Sounds like they planned for it to have no speed penalty, but wound up going with something else and forgot to change the flavor text. It happens.
 

You probably are aware of this, but chain mail (and most heavy armor) has a -1 to movement, while leather armor does not. The quoted text seems to state that it has no movement penalty.
Yes, I'm aware of this, hence my question. :) The text implies that the user pf banded mail has no movement penalty, but the table doesn't support this. As others have said, it's possible that during development this armor was changed, but the text wasn't updated...
 

The ranger scout has a similar issue... it claims that a short sword in the left is more defensively and you actually get a +1 bonus to attack... and not a single ability to support the claim...
 

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