Timeline for Trying to determine if there is a calculation for AC in DND5E that incorporates different material items worn at the same time
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| Apr 18, 2023 at 0:21 | comment | added | Kirt | One way in which a non-magic armor with the equivalent AC of chain +1 for 85gp is different from magic armor is - it's not magic. That means it is less resistant to damage. Now, you would need a pretty idiosyncratic setting, with object damage in every encounter and gray oozes lurking in every dungeon for that to justify the huge difference in price, but it is there as a possibility in the rules. | |
| Apr 17, 2023 at 12:32 | comment | added | biziclop | While this is true, of course you should be free to dress this up narratively whichever way you want it. A +1 breast plate could be one made from regular mild steel but with magic runes on it, but it could also be made from a very special metal that just happens to cost the same as your magic. | |
| Apr 17, 2023 at 12:18 | comment | added | Mołot | My party assumes that leather or gambeson is actually a part of chainmail armour set. Because irl it was, and it seemed reasonable to say that just the metal part can be worth 65gp, but shops only sell matching 75gp sets. Thus, upgrading by a blacksmith can be implemented without imbalancing the game. +5gp for an added effort and you have an exact equivalent of selling leather armour and buying chainmail one, just different flavours. | |
| Apr 16, 2023 at 21:15 | history | edited | Thomas Markov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2023 at 21:12 | vote | accept | dale landry | ||
| Apr 16, 2023 at 21:12 | comment | added | dale landry | Thank you Thomas, you have given me much to think about in my approach. All in all I think you have answered my question as to whether this is an implementation in the DND5E rules as my research was unable to find anything on using specific different armor types on the same player and how that affects their AC. | |
| Apr 16, 2023 at 21:05 | history | edited | Thomas Markov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2023 at 20:54 | history | edited | Thomas Markov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2023 at 20:48 | history | answered | Thomas Markov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |