When your spellslinger wants some armor...

[Warehouse23]

So my Wiz 5 just took a level of Fighter, heading on his way to picking up the EK PrC. In addition to wanting to pick up some new weapons (he's been watching the dwarf barbarian kick butt and take names), I've been thinking about outfitting him with some armor. Afterall, if the man's going to fight, he needs his armor.

So, given that there are no mithral shirts available where the character is right now, what armor would you recommend, if any?

 

[Thanee]

Mage Armor.

Bye
Thanee

 

[ForceUser]

Heh, be a psion, then take a level of fighter and crawl into full plate. No chance of spell failure when mixing psionic powers and armor. If you come up with a good character concept, it won't even be cheesy!

 

[Yig]

Improved Mage Armor.

Level 3 spell, in Complete Arcane.

 

[Armadon63]

runecaster from races of stone. nothing like walking around in full plate with armor spikes put on and then laying down some spells.

 

[Shin Okada]

Runesmith from Races of Stone is the most efficient armored mage IMHO. But Dwarfs only.

Cleric/Wizard can be a Geomancer (CDiv) and then cast arcane spells in armor.

Take some levels of Spellsword (CWar).

Or, buy a Chain Shirt made of Blended Quartz (AEG).

 

[Thondor]

Ask your DM if you can take a feat to reduce arcane spell failure chance. Don't expect more then 10% though. If he does give you 15% buy a chain shirt and accept the 5% failure chance. Or take a shield with no failure chance and you can still use armor spells.

 

[domino]

What is Blended Quartz, anyways?

 

[Tyrrell]

Or, buy a Chain Shirt made of Blended Quartz (AEG).

There were rules for alchemically hardened wooden armor in a Dragon magazine that came out just after 3.0 was released (it had elves as a special feature). Armor was not too dissimialr to mithril but slightly inferior and cheeper.

 

[Shin Okada]

What is Quartz, anyways?

A special material for armor. Basically, steel blended with quartz. It reduces arcane spell failure by 20%.