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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arch-Fiend" data-source="post: 7840021" data-attributes="member: 7016641">have you compared the armor protection of gambeson (which would be the best comparison to a buff coat) and that of a breastplate? i think that armor is also valid, but the rules for it would be more complex, better for a system using called shots or maybe something like thistouch ac +breastplate ac + gambeson ac, if you hit above touch ac but below breastplate, both AP's apply, if you hit above breastplate ac, gambeson AP applies. problems? how its applied to spells that dont roll to hit. maybe such case always counts as if there is an attack but it just rolls below the full armor class. so always applies to the armor with the highest full ac but im not sure that's a perfect solution. also yes obviously the weights would stack. id argue stacking armor works like the followingarmors of the same type that stack become armor of the next level (light->medium->heavy) but armors of different types that stack do not become armor of the next level, though if you stack 3 armors (gambeson+leather+breastplate) the same type armors stack first becoming a next level armor and then that armor stacks with the 3rd armor.</blockquote>