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<blockquote data-quote="ArmoredSaint" data-source="post: 3823499" data-attributes="member: 54539">What few other cultures used anything close to full plate armour seem to have adhered to similar design principles as those used in European full plate.&nbsp; A case in point might be the c.1400bc Mycenaean &quot;Dendra armour.&quot;&nbsp; Its pauldrons and fauld are constructed in a manner almost identical to those of Milanese armour made nearly three thousand years later.&nbsp; Neither culture could have influenced the other, but they arrived at almost identical solutions to the problem of defending the human body with metal plates.&nbsp; There's no reason to doubt that the situation would be any different in a realistic fantasy human culture.Without going into specifics, I strongly disagree.&nbsp; The armours illustrated by Lars Grant-West in the equipment chapter of the 3rd edition Player's Handbook do not have what I consider to be believable coverage or allow sufficient freedom of movement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ArmoredSaint, post: 3823499, member: 54539"] What few other cultures used anything close to full plate armour seem to have adhered to similar design principles as those used in European full plate. A case in point might be the c.1400bc Mycenaean "Dendra armour." Its pauldrons and fauld are constructed in a manner almost identical to those of Milanese armour made nearly three thousand years later. Neither culture could have influenced the other, but they arrived at almost identical solutions to the problem of defending the human body with metal plates. There's no reason to doubt that the situation would be any different in a realistic fantasy human culture. Without going into specifics, I strongly disagree. The armours illustrated by Lars Grant-West in the equipment chapter of the 3rd edition Player's Handbook do not have what I consider to be believable coverage or allow sufficient freedom of movement. [/QUOTE]

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