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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8047905" data-attributes="member: 6801845">On a side note, the idea that people "clank" when they're in heavy armor is kind of a myth.  Cheap stuff put together out of old road signs by someone in the SCA that doesn't know what they're doing?  Probably noisy as heck.  Real armor?  Well, you'll probably have a gambeson underneath and leather lining to protect from one piece of metal scratching the other.  The noise of well made armor makes is overstated.  Probably about as noisy as real leather armor would be.Which doesn't really matter if the person wearing it is standing still and not moving around IMHO.  P.S. Not that I've changed the rules in my campaign because I don't need D&D to be particularly realistic.  On the other hand I don't penalize more than the rules say either for "realism".</blockquote>