Dragon Warriors armour

[Snarlygribbly]

Looks like someone's tinkered with the armour rules at the last minute, introducing some inconsistencies.

The armour factors table (p.66) shows armour types not referenced in the rest of the rulebook. For example, the character creation process (see p.24) has Assassins starting with Hardened leather Armour and Mystics with Ring Mail armour, neither of which is listed in the Armour Factor table (but are actually armour types from the original rules).

My guess is that Armour types translate as follows (new/original):

None = None
Gambeson = Padded Leather
Padded Armour = Hardened leather
Mail Hauberk = Ring Mail
Mail Armour = Chainmail (or 'Full Mail' as used in the new book)
Plate Armour = Plate

I know these equivalences don't refer to the same type of armour historically. Rather, I've matched Armour Factors across the old and new rules and also matched armour types from the old and new character creation rules.

The table on p.66 should have been left alone, in my opinion. The new types only serve to introduce confusion, given that the rest of the book uses the armour types from the original rules.

 

[hal]

My guess is that Armour types translate as follows (new/original):

None = None
Gambeson = Padded Leather
Padded Armour = Hardened leather
Mail Hauberk = Ring Mail
Mail Armour = Chainmail (or 'Full Mail' as used in the new book)
Plate Armour = Plate

That is correct.

 

[Ian S Sturrock]

That was my fault, for which I apologise. It was a relatively late change in the manuscript (still over a year ago), & for some reason I didn't spot it in the starting equipment section. I felt it was appropriate to use historically recognisable armour types, rather than the more high fantasy types of the original, since DW generally is so much more influenced by history than by high fantasy. I still think that, but I'm now kicking myself for not doing a full Find & Replace.

 

[Sir Brad]

Question, is their only one type of armour per AF under the new Rules set?

Back in the Day I had various types at each AF point, eg. AF3 could have bean actual Ring-Mail, Norman Chain-mail and a few others, AF2 was generally Boiled Leather (Hardened Leather), Studded Leather and such. I also introduced Full & Field Plate with a AF of 6, but it impaired even Knights unless they had a Home Brew "Skill of the Mighty" that allowed them to fight in the Armour.

 

[bulya]

Brad, check out the expanded armour rules pdf at the Magnum Opus Press site.