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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sorren" data-source="post: 1720902" data-attributes="member: 20920">Yeah, good catch. It should be 2d8. Thanks.what do you think about this?ArticulatedSome armor can be designed with additional protection in the form of overlapping, jointed, and  hinged plates so that the wearer can divert more protection to a needed area just by adjusting their posture slightly (like using a shield, this does not require an action). This additional protection increases the armor’s bonus by +2 and its armor check penalty by +1. If the wearer is unaware of an incoming attack, this offers protection as normal armor of its type. Also, because of the shifting protective sections, articulated armor imposes an additional -2 penalty to Move Silently (which stacks with the additional penalty to the armor’s check penalty).Scalemail, breastplate, splint mail, banded mail, half-plate and full plate are the only types of armor than can be built with this additional protection. Heavy steel shields can also be reinforced in this manor. They receive a +1 armor bonus and impose an additional -1 penalty to Move Silently (which stacks with the additional penalty to the shield’s check penalty and the penalty if the character wears articulated armor). Like articulated armor, this armor bonus is lost if the user is unaware of the incoming attack.One can also build an articulated tower shield. The shield’s articulating plates are arranged along its bottom. Should the user desire, he made retract the plates and secure them with latches, thus transforming the tower shield into a heavy steel shield. Changing an articulated tower shield from one form to the other takes a standard action and provokes and attack of opportunity. Other than the ability to change forms and the additional weight, articulated tower shields are otherwise identical a standard tower shield or heavy steel shield depending on its current form.Articulated armor and shields cost three times the standard cost of the armor or shield and weigh an additional 25%.</blockquote>

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