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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2765934" data-attributes="member: 1515">No, it's not, unfortunately; mithral plate is medium armor.As you'll see when you get to the Equipment chapter, Edena, there are three categories of armor:Light: Padded (+1 bonus to AC), leather (+2), studded leather (+3), chain shirt (+4)Medium: Hide (+3), scale (+4), chainmail (+4), breastplate (+5)Heavy: Splint (+6), banded (+6), half-plate (+7), full plate (+8)As Numion referred to, generally speaking, the heavier the armor, the less of your Dex bonus can be applied to AC -- for example, if you're wearing Leather, you can apply up to +8 of your Dex bonus (assuming it's that high) to your AC.  But, if you're wearing Full Plate, you can only apply +1 of your Dex bonus to your AC.  Thus, if you have an 18 Dex (+4 bonus), Half-Plate armor (+7 armor bonus to AC, +0 max Dex bonus to AC) would actually give you less protection than a Chain Shirt (+4 armor bonus to AC, +4 max Dex bonus to AC).So, generally speaking, you tend to see PCs and their armor choices split into two camps:- High-dex PCs tend to wear Light armor, so they can also apply most, if not all, of their Dex bonus to AC (and, several Dex-dependent classes, such as Rogue, Barbarian, and Ranger, have game mechanics that also push them into wearing nothing heavier than  Light armor)- Low-dex PCs tend to wear the heaviest armor they can get.  This is the stereotypical tank-cleric.As far as mithral...if a suit of metal (or primarily metal) armor is made of mithral, it has several nice effects:- The armor is treated as one "weight" category lighter (so, a suit of mithral Breastplate would be considered Light armor)- Arcane Spell Failure is reduced by 10%- Maximum Dex bonus to AC is increased by 2- Armor Check Penalty is reduced by 3So, your Bard (who can wear Light armor without penalty) could invest 4200gp in a suit of mithral breastplate.  At that point, he'd have: - Light armor (so, nothing fouling up his abilities or spells)- +5 armor bonus to AC- Maximum Dex bonus to AC of +5- Armor Check Penalty of -1Pretty much the only downside would be that his speed would be lower (since making the armor out of mithral doesn't increase your speed while wearing it).And, once you get into magical enhancements, it's cheaper to increase your AC via making your armor magical than it is via other magical enhancements (i.e., Rings of Protection, Amulets of Natural Armor, etc.)</blockquote>

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