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[Guest 7042500]

No historian, academic, or scholar has ever used the term "plated mail". I have only seen it used on game forums.

That's just what I mean.

 

[Cadence]

No historian, academic, or scholar has ever used the term "plated mail". I have only seen it used on game forums.

That's just what I mean.

For more:

Arms and Armor—Common Misconceptions and Frequently Asked Questions | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The field of arms and armor is beset with romantic legends, gory myths, and widely held misconceptions. Most of them are utter nonsense, devoid of any historical base.

www.metmuseum.org

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

It's okay if there are options included in the rulebook that you don't like, and it's okay if options you like aren't in other people's games.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

No historian, academic, or scholar has ever used the term "plated mail". I have only seen it used on game forums.

That's just what I mean.

i assumed they were referring to this.

 

[MGibster]

It's worse. People quote D&D thinking it's accurate. There is no such thing as ring mail, or plate mail, or splinted armor, or studded armor, or any of a thousand other terms that Meyerick and other Victorians devised and were discarded over half a century ago.

That's fair. I grew up thinking studded leather was a thing because of AD&D. My least favorite was the double sword introduced in 3rd edition D&D. We all have George Lucas to blame for it.

 

[Hussar]

That isn't an example of adding a flavor, though. That's an example of taking one of the six flavors and changing it out for a different sixth flavor. At least it is if they give the fighter supernaturally powerful abilities without them being supernatural in nature. Again, I don't care if Zoro the normal human trains to an incredible degree and can supernaturally cut someone from 100 feet away as long as the ability is supernatural(magic).

It's when someone tries to say that it's they should have that ability as a mundane ability that alters the flavor from chocolate chip to mint chip. So mythic fighters are okay. Mythic fighters doing supernatural things as mundane abilities is not okay. If you want that, leave fighters alone and add some other class(add a flavor) that we can ignore the way I personally ignore warlords. I'm happy for you to have the warlord flavor even though I will never eat it in my game.

Thank you for so eloquently providing an excellent example of my point.

 

[Maxperson]

Thank you for so eloquently providing an excellent example of my point.

So your point was you want a new flavored class instead of forcing a fighter flavor change? I totally agree with that.

 

[Lanefan]

Ah, "technically", the worst kind of correct. Because it's usually not correct at all, We live in a world of meaning, not technicality.

I think the western world's legal system would like a word about this....

 

[Lanefan]

dnd plate mail is a suit of plate. real life plated mail is a suit of mail with plates attached. it is not "pretty close".

D&D full plate (or field plate) from 1e-2e is a suit of plate, or Maximillian. Plate mail is plated mail as you say.

That 5e seems to have dropped full/field plate isn't my problem.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

D&D full plate (or field plate) from 1e-2e is a suit of plate, or Maximillian. Plate mail is plated mail as you say.

That 5e seems to have dropped full/field plate isn't my problem.

5e doesn't have "plate mail". it just has "plate" (which i would assume is full plate).