MRPG Armor

There are three different types of armor: Leather, Plate, and Chain. Unlike weapons, however, there is no further subtype.

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

• Head = Helm/Hood
• Hands = Gloves/Gauntlets
• Wrists = Bracers
• Feet = Boots
• Shins = Vambrances
• 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 same-quality armor also yields an extra +8 if it is Fine and +12 if it is Very Fine.

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, 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.

See Also:

• Mage Wars RPG