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body plate
Description: Complete plate suit, including great helm, gauntlets, vambraces and greaves. See individual items for details.
Strength (STR) Required: 32
Defense Modifier: 13
Equipment Slots Used: 3
Number of Uses: 0 (0 = unlimited)
Allows Spellcasting? No
Weapon Class: D
Price: 1500.00 Mehrials
Ehlanna wrote:The Body Plate seems to have a total DEF higher than the component pieces because it is a suit of armour that is build around and specifically for the wearer. Thus all the parts act, hang and hinge together with exactitude and the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
The Rule of Armor Redundancy Some armor items cannot be worn together; you can only wear one or the other. For instance, you can't wear two types of Helms at the same time (Unless your character has two heads, which I doubt! More so than Helms, this problem seems to be more common when it comes to Body/Torso type items. As a general rule, you can wear 1 item from each of the categories mentioned above for armor like Body/Torso, Arms/Hands, Head Gear, etc. So if your character had both a Leather Armor and a Mage Robe, only one would count in combat. You can own redundant items if you really want to drop the money. They just won't count together, only one will, whichever is stronger. There are some exceptions though, such as a Gambeson, which is a padding worn under body armor, to help the character avoid getting hurt by his own armor biting into his flesh. Another exception are vambraces and guantlets, as guantlets are considered full hand covering and vambraces the forearm. These types of items are usually found in a full body plaite as a good reference.
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