Notes for armour
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These are just some notes to use as a guide when creating new armour.
Damage resistance
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Types of armour should have the following levels of resistance:
blunt sharp pierce
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chain bad v.good medium
hleath good medium bad
leath+ +++ ++ +
leather bad poor bad
bone good bad bad
hleath is hard leather. leath+ is all those leather + bits of
metal/whatever. Use your judgement, but basically the more metal the
better blunt will become, sharp will go up more slowly than blunt and
pierce even more slowly.
Armour types
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Armour is divided into three basic types, leather, flexible (maille) and hard
(plate). Players can wear both maille & plate at the same time.
All your items should be one (or more) of these types.
Note: an item may be of more than one type. For example a basinet may
have a set_type of: set_type(({"helmet", "gorget"})); to give it
coverage for both the head and neck.
leather
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The leather armour is somewhere between clothing & armour, thus it
uses clothing types.
hat (head)
jacket (chest, back, arms)
trousers (abdomen, legs)
flexible (maille)
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coif (head & neck)
byrnie (chest + back + abdomen)
haubergon (chest + back + abdomen + arms)
hauberk (chest + back + adbdomen + arms + legs)
chausses (feet)
hard (plate)
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helmet (head)
gorget (neck)
breastplate (chest + abdomen)
backplate (back)
vambraces (arms)
greaves (legs)
sabatons (feet)
basinet {helmet + gorget}
cuirass {breastplate + backplate}
Gloves & boots are extra. You can't wear maille & plate gloves or
boots -- ouch!
