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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 275263" data-attributes="member: 463">Re: Re: New magic item - Mage Armor!Yup.  You're right - I recall one time in 1e rules Thrin (Upper_Krust) was fighting Vanya, the Thyatian goddess, and losing - she had up an a-am shell, in his heavy dragonscale armour he only had a 6"/60' move and was unable to escape, she squelched him like a bug!  Odin had to pay up a huge ransom to get him back and promise never to interfere with Mystara again!Still, it's a question whether the +8 full plate armor bonus outweighs the penalties you mention - you can't cast spells in an a-m shell so the arcane spell failure chance isn't much of a worry. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The speed loss might be a good reason to stick with a chain shirt, though, or even lighter armour if you have a very high DEX.Anyway, I'm looking forward to using this in-game and recapturing some of that 1e flavour! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  The PCs in my game already fought a high level fighter-rogue who was wearing a 'shirt of mage armor', a silk shirt giving a +4 Armor bonus, so it's not a big stretch.</blockquote>

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