Layering armor?

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But you can do cloak over armor right? Just not 2 cloaks. Also, do cloaks and armor help against extreme cold?

 in 5e nor 5.5 there is nothing stopping you from putting on multiple armor sets excepts maybe the formula

There is, though. The 5.5e Player's Handbook section on Armor in chapter 5 explicitly says you can only wear one set of armor at a time and wield only one shield at a time.

The 5e Player's Handbook, which is obviously what this thread was originally about, does not have this restriction.

So how about the Tattoos from Tasha's Couldron? As long as you don't stack the AC-bonus, you could have both a tatto and some other armour. Just not active at the same time.

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But you can do cloak over armor right? Just not 2 cloaks. Also, do cloaks and armor help against extreme cold?

 in 5e nor 5.5 there is nothing stopping you from putting on multiple armor sets excepts maybe the formula

There is, though. The 5.5e Player's Handbook section on Armor in chapter 5 explicitly says you can only wear one set of armor at a time and wield only one shield at a time.

The 5e Player's Handbook, which is obviously what this thread was originally about, does not have this restriction.

 This thread came out before 5.5e, so it makes sense.

I guess technically you can, but the game doesn't really intend you to do so. As you mentioned, you will not gain AC from it. I imagine, pending your dm, there could be some niche benefits other than the ones you mentioned. Like if you are wearing a leather armor under plate  you can lower the damage of a heat metal spell used on you and things like that.

 D&D scratches the idea of what it is to be a Man-At-Arms or a Knight if you will, but it's rather surface level usually. The fact that most knights wore gambeson, chaimail or Aketon under their armor isn't really factored in the game. It's a bit of a pet peeve for myself who is very attentive to history, though obviously the game's design goal wasn't exactly concerned with historical verisimilitude.

I bet you're glad I answered your question 5 years later.

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I guess technically you can, but the game doesn't really intend you to do so. As you mentioned, you will not gain AC from it. I imagine, pending your dm, there could be some niche benefits other than the ones you mentioned. Like if you are wearing a leather armor you can lower the damage of a heat metal spell used on you and things like that.

 

Heat Metal doesn't care if you use it for AC, it only cares if you are wearing or touching metal. 

Yeah, RAW it wouldn't make a difference. I guess I was suggesting that a DM might be open to rule a reduction to damage if you argue the leather helps to diffuse some of the heat.