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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7693657" data-attributes="member: 58172">Yay!Reasonably historically accurate armor!I love it.I am ok with full-on fantasy armor, but the I feel the reallife stuff needs to set the tone, and be the foundation of the game. Anything beyond reallife, should feel weird-exotic-magical and ‘impossible’.In the picture, the brigandine armor is moreorless accurate. The outer cloth that covered the outside of the historical armor called a ‘brigandine’, was literally just for decoration. The stuff that matters is moreorless what one sees in this picture. It is essentially pieces of flat metal riveted onto a cloth (of canvas, soft leather, etcetera). Here, this brigandine armor is able to represent the many different kinds of armor that are moreorless identical, being pieces of flat metal riveted or sewn, onto cloth or directly onto other pieces of metal.Really, ‘scalemail’ is moreorless equivalent to the brigandine, pieces of metal held together. But here, it is notable - perhaps even archetypal - because this form that resembles ‘fish scales’ (according to Greeks) or ‘bird feathers’ (according to Romans) is a very ancient style of armor.The word ‘mail’ is used in the improper sense of any kind of metal armor. Properly, it only means interlocking chain (ring mesh) armor.Except in the case of splintmail, where the picture has cleverly redefined the (implausible) D&D armor, by depicting a reallife armor of the same name. In this case, ‘splint’ means the narrow pieces of flat metal, and ‘mail’ means these metal pieces are affixed to each other by means of interlocking rings. So the armor is a blend of the chainmail and the brigandine shown here. The armor was effective, and if I recall correctly, popular in East Europe.The ringmail is less effective, but apparently really did exist in a location where metal was scarce.Heh. Best of all. No false, silly, implausible, counterproductive ‘studded leather’ armor! Yay!DMs should consult these illustrations for every medievalesque game they play.These illustrations are awesome.</blockquote>

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