MRPG Armor

Base Armor Rules

Armor comes in 3 varieties: Leather, Chain, and Plate. You must have the appropriate Proficiency in order to wear a type of armor. DV is determined by Proficiency. AC is decided by armor type and quality.

Base Armor Class by Type and Quality:

Type:	Poor	Simple	Fine	Very Fine
Leather:	13	21	19	40
Chain:	25	33	41	52
Plate:	46	54	62	73

Base Price by Type and Quality:

Type:	Poor	Simple	Fine	Very Fine
Leather:	25	43	86	215
Chain:	250	396	792	1980
Plate:	500	986	1972	4930

For those interested in using basic, pre-existing sets of armor, use these rules. For those interested in fine-tuning, follow the advanced rules.

Advanced Armor Rules

There are three different types of armor: Leather, Plate, and Chain. Unlike weapons, however, there is no further subtype. See Damage for details on how AC affects damage.

Slot is also important, as there are eight different slots to include:

• Head = Helm/Hood
• Hands = Gloves/Gauntlets
• Wrists = Bracers
• Feet = Boots
• Shins = Vambraces
• Legs = Greaves
• Chest = Vest/Gauntlets/Breastplate
• Shoulders = Pauldrons

Armor Pieces Sizes

For the purposes of materials, Armor is counted in 2 different sizes. Leg and Chest pieces(Shin, Leg, and Chest slots) are considered "large", while everything else is just called "Medium". This applies as some materials provide different bonuses according to the amount used, and leg and chest pieces obviously use more.

For all other purposes, use the following size chart:

Leg and Chest pieces:

• Shins = Large
• Legs = Large
• Chest = Vary large

All the Rest:

• Head = Medium
• Hands = Small
• Wrists = Medium
• Feet = Medium
• Shoulders = Medium

Armor Class

AC is based on size, quality, and weight. Heavy armor has more AC than light armor. Better quality armor protects better than poor-quality, etc, etc.

Leather: Base: 2 Leg/Shin: 3 Chest: 5

Chain: Base: 3 Leg/Shin: 5 Chest: 8

Plate: Base: 5 Leg/Shin: 8 Chest: 13

Quality then modifies these values accordingly:

• Poor: -1
• Simple: -0
• Fine: +1
• Very Fine: +3

This bonus applies to each piece of armor individual, a full set of Very Fine armor adds an additional +4.

• EXAMPLE: A full set of Heavy Plate provides 13 for the chest piece, 8 for each leg piece, and 5 for each additional piece. A base suit of Simple Full Plate armor provides 44 AC. Since there are eight pieces, a full set of Fine would then add a bonus of +8, and Very Fine would add an extra +24. The highest base AC is 72, for a full matching set of Very Fine Full Plate.

List of Armor Pieces

A complete inventory of armor pieces. Pieces will always go in the slot-order established above. Notably there is not a whole ton of variation, here.

Leather

• Leather Hood
• Leather Gloves
• Leather Bracers
• Leather Boots
• Leather Vambrances
• Leather Greaves
• Leather Vest
• Leather Pauldrons

Chain

• Chain Helm
• Chain Gauntlets
• Chain Bracers
• Chain Boots
• Chain Vambrances
• Chain Greaves
• Chain Gauntlets
• Chain Pauldrons

Plate

• Plate Helm
• Plate Gauntlets
• Plate Bracers
• Plate Boots
• Plate Vambrances
• Plate Greaves
• Breastplate
• Plate Pauldrons

Note: Everything else is prefixed by armor-type (leather hood, chain guantlets, etc.) with the exception of the Breastplate, of which would be redundant to say "Plate Breastplate".

Suites

While armor can be had as individual pieces(and is crafted as such), it is possible to find complete suits (and craft same). Many named armors will come as entire suits. The suit is equipped as a single item, wearing it consumes all of the armor slots.

Base Prices

In keeping with the weapons table, I will calculate base armor prices here. Since there isn't as much variation, so this will be a pretty straight out and out table.

Armor Piece	Base Price
Leather Hood	2
Leather Gloves	1
Leather Bracers	4
Leather Boots	6
Leather Vambrances	8
Leather Greaves	6
Leather Vest	10
Leather Pauldrons	6
Full Leather Armor	43
Chain Helm	11
Chain Gauntlets	11
Chain Bracers	22
Chain Boots	42
Chain Vambrances	53
Chain Greaves	85
Chain Gauntlets	128
Chain Pauldrons	44
Full Chain Armor	396
Plate Helm	66
Plate Gauntlets	51
Plate Bracers	56
Plate Boots	85
Plate Vambrances	72
Plate Greaves	128
Breastplate	422
Plate Pauldrons	106
Full Plate Armor	986

See Also:

• Mage Wars RPG