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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 8474942" data-attributes="member: 2642">I don't think a leather brigantine would be wearable... nor would it float very well, at least not for long. Wood seems all around much more viable for shipbuilding.(You no doubt mean "brigandine".)As for leather armour, it's in a weird place in D&D and other RPGs. It's sometimes said to be modelled on cuir bouilli, but it doesn't seem like it offers enough protection for that to be the case (insofar as you can gather from how it plays in D&D, which is not exactly winning any awards for its realistic simulation of any kind of armour). I think cuir bouilli is reasonably well-attested but not so much anything with the properties D&D and other games attribute to "leather armour". Still, as you say, it's not an unreasonable choice for a fantasy game.</blockquote>