Timeline for What is "metal armor"?
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| Jul 12, 2021 at 9:56 | comment | added | InternetHobo | @PipperChip Most of my players are of the opinion that the fantasy leather armor is crap also. They want to upgrade as soon as possible for the very reason that it doesn't provide much protection. No one at any D&D table I've played at is under any misapprehension that a leather coat is going to increase their defensive capabilities, nor are they likely to have any case to test that theory. You're trying to "correct" a non-existent problem. | |
| Aug 21, 2017 at 5:17 | comment | added | PipperChip | @enkryptor I mention this fact about leather armor because there are many "simulationists" out there: they think that stuff from D&D, like armor and game mechanics, should model things in the real world. I'm not going to argue the virtues of this position, but I will inform people when they start posting picture of armors that people have made, be they worthless or not. | |
| Aug 20, 2017 at 13:50 | comment | added | enkryptor | @PipperChip I see no point in arguing about effectiveness of "real" fantasy armor, because in real world there is no such thing as "fantasy armor" at all. As players, we imagine worlds, and in our imaginary worlds this armor has the properties we imagine. It's up to the players. If you imagine it as a crap, it is crap. | |
| Aug 20, 2017 at 13:21 | comment | added | PipperChip | @enkryptor Matt Easton, a very well respected historian and sword collector, says that fantasy leather armor is crap. I linked his video in my very first comment. Skallagrim's video shows that fantasy studded armor isn't very good, especially against long swords and daggers. Also, that last link isn't "studded leather" - it's approaching a form of coat of plates, but with terribly vulnerable gaps in between them! Biker gear is supposed to protect against road rash, which would be like attacking someone with a cheese grater. Swords will just cut through leather, just like leatherworking tools. | |
| Aug 20, 2017 at 11:08 | comment | added | enkryptor | @PipperChip who said it is? I've always imagined "studded leather armor" as something like this, or this. Or this. It must be protective, hence "armor". | |
| Aug 20, 2017 at 8:57 | comment | added | PipperChip | @enkryptor and adding studs to that armor does very little to help it. I just don't want people thinking that biker-gear-like leather is acceptable protection against swords, because it isn't. | |
| Aug 19, 2017 at 5:49 | comment | added | enkryptor | @PipperChip actually in 5e "leather armor" is described as "...made of leather that has been stiffened by being boiled in oil". | |
| Aug 19, 2017 at 0:18 | comment | added | PipperChip | I just need to get this off my chest... "leather" armor from DND never existed, unless you are thinking of boiled leather (cuir bouilli), buff leather (exceptionally thick leather), or a coat of plates (which has metal plates riveted on the inside). See Skallgrim's video (especially the longsword part): youtu.be/U2AYg90YoYY?t=3m8s and Matt Easton's: youtu.be/KUPIUHpkK88 | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 16:16 | comment | added | joojaa | That gauntlet is a toy prop, there exits gauntlets with much more metall. But obviously plate has nonmetal parts too. | |
| Aug 18, 2017 at 10:15 | vote | accept | enkryptor | ||
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| Aug 17, 2017 at 17:30 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | All of those metal studs in the metal bits, in a world of D&D, can be bone or stone given the abilities of various races and classes to work with and shape stone. | |
| Aug 17, 2017 at 15:12 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackRPG/status/898200867731591168 | ||
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