(TFT) New Armor.

[Pasha and or Rick Smith <pnrsmith@istar.ca>]

Hi Everyone,
I was talking to my players this weekend about the armor discussion
and they felt that the Threshold numbers were too high for the larger armors.
(I picked the numbers I did so they would be as close to those in AM as possible.)

After kicking around the ideas some, here is my armor table from
my essay,  Advatages of Great ST in TFT, adjusted to make the heavier
armor more attractive.

I am not saying anything about these rules being playtested or 
workable,  however they are internally self consistant.

By the way, Warg hide armor and Ork mail are from an old TSG
(# 14 or 15 I think).



Armor Table: 
Armor                 Hits      DX     MA     Thresh	 No-	  Cost      Mass                Notes 
Name               Stopped   adj      adj      -old #  	 Neg.#          $            kg 			

Elvenmail 1,2      - 1       - 1        -0      13 ST	 13 ST	   100	    8	   Thin wep. special
Cloth 	            - 1       - 1	   -0       14	 14	     50	       5	  

Warg hide            - 1       - 0	   -1       14 	 14 	     60	       6	   
Ork mail 2           - 2       - 1	   -1       15      	 16	   150	     10	     Thin wep. special 
Leather 	            - 2       - 2	   -2       16      	 19 	   100	    7 
Chain 2	            - 3       - 2	   -3       17 	 21 	   200	     12	  Thin wep. special 
Scale 	            - 3       - 3       -3       18      	 23            250	     16 
Hvy Chain 2       - 4       - 3       -4        19      	 25	   300 	   18 	     Thin wep. special 
1/2Plate	            - 4       - 4       -4        20      	 27	   300 18 
Plate 	            - 5       - 5      -4         22      	 30 	   500	  22 



Notes:
1   Elves are -2 adj MA to the listed value for ALL armor types so their no negative # is +2. 
The one exception is Elvenmail which gives all other races a -0 adj MA and Elves just a -1 adj
MA.

2   All types of Chain mail stops only -1 hits vs stilettos & darts, and only -2 hits vs rapiers, 
picks, arrows and other impaling weapons.  Normal humans now have a 7 MA in chainmail. 
Generally the various types of chain don't have as heavy a movement penalties as other armor
that stops that many hits.

3   Giants are +2 adj MA to the listed value for ALL armor types,  so their no negative # is -2.




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