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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6249276" data-attributes="member: 92305">Hey!  What happened to the "Conan" tag???In the Mongoose Conan RPG, the Barbarian class is obviously based on Cimmerian Barbarians (and possibly Vanir/Aesir Barbarians) rather than other barbarian types such as those in the Black Kingdoms or in the Pictish Wilds.  I believe that there are tweaks to the class listed in other books (besides the core rulebook) that skew the class to a better description of those other barbarian types. My question is about armor.  It makes sense that in a game about Conan the Barbarian class would focus on his particular taste of barbarian.  The class automaticaly provides Feats in all armor types, including Heavy Armor.  In the game, heavy armor is Plate or a Scale Hauberk, or various combinations of mail and other types of armor (like a mail shirt and a breastplate or a mail hauberk and a brigandine coat). Just how advanced is Cimmerian armor?  Yes, we all know the Cimmerians create steel weapons, but do they make chainmail, too?  Inferred by this rule in the game, the Cimmerians do.  And, they must make plate, too. I'm sure that some of the training a Cimmerian gets in Heavy Armor comes from thick, heavy winter clothing, when the warrior is decked out in a heavy bearskin and fighting for his life among the Vanir. I have a bit of trouble thinking of a Cimmerian smith making a steel breastplate.  I'm not sure about chainmail.  I could go either way, on that one.  But, my impression of Cimmerian smiths is that they provide heavy leather and boiled leather reinforced with metal as in studded leather, ringmail, mabe even splint.  Certainly a brigadine coat. But, according to the game, that's all Medium Armor. So, set me straight.  Do you think Cimmerian villages typically boast a heavy armorer that routinely produces solid breastplates and flexible mail for the warriors?</blockquote>

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