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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wuyanei" data-source="post: 2701988" data-attributes="member: 28913">IMG last saturday, a player wanted to make mithril studded leather. The mithril is for the rivets. The player argued that most of the weight (and thus encumberance, ACP and ASF) comes from the close-set rivets -- 'close-set rivets on a soft-leather backing' -- without which the armor should be no more restricting than padded armor.In the end, I allowed it, my reason being totally meta-game -- +2 AC for +1000 gp when compaired to padded will not break anything, IMO. Plus, I admire a player who thinks of something so obvious, that I missed it throughout more than 7 years of gaming.What I would like to ask the community here, especially people with actual experience with wearing studded leather armor (if there are any such people in the community) is: "Just how restrictive is the leather backing for studded leather? How would you have ruled in this particular case?Thanks in advance!Yanei Wu</blockquote>