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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7449436" data-attributes="member: 58172">While players choose what they want their armor style and materials to look like, the following rule of thumb seems to be in play.LIGHT ARMOR• full fabric armor (arms and legs too: boiled leather, padding, layers, fur)• light helmet (face uncovered)MEDIUM ARMOR• metal armor (torso only: chain, lamellar scales, laminar bands, plate)• medium helmet (nose guard)• shield(!) (shield is medium armor and incurs max Dex 2)HEAVY ARMOR• full metal armor (for arms and legs: chain, long thin splints, plate, shield can count for arms)• heavy helmet (face covered: eye slits, spectacle guard, cheek guards)Thoughts.• Light armor definitely deserves a max Dex. The max Dex 4 is a good idea.• Light armor and heavy armor are both more likely to see two-handed weapons.• Medium armor is more likely to be sword-and-board.• Dragon hide can substitute metal for medium and heavy.• Average humans have Dex 2 or less, thus benefit from medium armor, and should wear it if affordable.• Wealthy Greek hoplites seem to enjoy ‘heavy armor’, with bronze plate cuirass for torso, bronze shin-guard greaves, and the shield seems to count as metal arm protection. This large shield partly hung on the shoulder, and well secured to arm and hand, to make carrying it easier, and it seems to serve as coverage for shoulders, hip, and groin area.• A Roman laminar banded armor for one arm only, counts as a shield, as part of medium armor.• A low-level rogue with Dex 3 still benefits slightly from a shield, but at upper levels with Dex 5, the shield just gets in the way.</blockquote>

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