Half-plate

[fanboy2000]

My party has a front line fighter that, until this session, was wearing leather armor. Upon being told that the dwarf had just died, he wanted to know if he could use some of the plating on his armor to augment his own. I said yes, thinking I'd just call the result half-plate, but no such thing is detailed in either the adventure's vault or the PHB, so I came up with this:

Armor Bonus: +7
Check: -1
Speed: -1

A little in between scale and plate. No one would ever buy this, but it worked for an on the spot jury-rig.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I should've had him make some kind of skill check.

I hope someone finds this useful. Any questions comments welcome.

 

[Bagpuss]

Why not just treat it like Scale?

 

[PeelSeel2]

Or Chain?

 

[fanboy2000]

I thought about treating it like scale but I ultimately decided not to because 1) this was jury-rigged armor done in the dungeon. And 2) I think this reflects why there is no half-plate in the game, it's inferior to both scale and plate.

I dismissed chain outright because it half-plate didn't feel like it should have the same statistics as half-plate.