Armour Question

[sidkfjjteidlkkf]

Hey,

My players and I have a question. Why is it that you can stack armour, but only the higher AP take effect?

Would it not be possible to wear a soft leather under most other armour and gain the additional AP from it.

Please ellaborate?

 

[Rurik]

I believe the armor descriptions state that applicable armors (chain and plate for example) are considered to have the appropriate padding as part of the overall package.

Mostly though I think it is a blanket rule to prevent abuse by trying to layer armor to get ridiculously high armor points.

(That is what protection magic is for!)

 

[sidkfjjteidlkkf]

I believe the armor descriptions state that applicable armors (chain and plate for example) are considered to have the appropriate padding as part of the overall package.

Mostly though I think it is a blanket rule to prevent abuse by trying to layer armor to get ridiculously high armor points.

(That is what protection magic is for!)

Thanks, I believe the latter is more like it, cause just like D20, some of my players are POWER PLAYERS...

 

[Rurik]

You could just play with the Armor Penalties as published and say that if Armor Points stack so do the penalties. That should put an end to stacking.

I think really the rules are the way they are so you can wear a chain hauberk over a soft leather shirt for example. You don't get to stack the armor points, but also don't stack the penalty.

 

[atgxtg]

There is an alternate armor table someone did up in an RQ2 style with stackable armor. :wink:

The chart was posted on the forum, and is still up at Simons MRQ Resource site: http://simon.hibbs.googlepages.com/alternatearmourtable

Of course the AP penalties would stack, too, but some people had house ruled those as well.