Chain Shirt (Armor)
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Chain Shirt |
Light Armor proficiency required | edit | |||||||
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Cost | Armor Bonus to AC |
Dex Penalty to AC |
Armor Check Penalty |
Arcane Spell Failure |
Move Penalty | Durability | Wt | |
| Size Medium | Size Small | ||||||||
| 30 gp | 4 | -1 | -2 | 20% | 0 | 0 | 3 | 25 lbs. | |
| Special: | |||||||||
| A chain shirt is more accurately described as a chainmail breastplate. It consists of a shirt of padded armor over which is a multiply-linked chainmail shirt which covers the entire torso. Chainmail is made of thousands of interwoven rings of iron, brass, or other readily-worked, high-strength, inexpensive metal. The main cost of chainmail is in the labor used to put it together. A chain shirt is remarkably heavy for its size, but the strength and flexibility give it a very good level of protection for a 'light' armor. | |||||||||