in the description for Mithral Armor it says "A mithral chain shirt or breastplate can be worn under normal clothes." does that mean only those two? or can other sets?
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny. Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)
It’s basically a nod to Lord of the Rings, where Frodo wore such a chain shirt under his regular clothes. Plus there’s just the practical consideration of how much material is involved in the various types.
in the description for Mithral Armor it says "A mithral chain shirt or breastplate can be worn under normal clothes." does that mean only those two? or can other sets?
Well, there are some non-mithral armors that can maybe be worn under normal clothes, but the main reason for adding that feature is that otherwise a mithral chain shirt or breastplate is useless. The normal benefit of mithral is that the armor doesn't give stealth penalties -- but a chain shirt or a breastplate already doesn't give stealth penalties, so they needed to give it some other benefit, and decided on concealable as the answer.
My main complaint about Mithral in 5e is that it doesn't change the weight of items that are made from it.
Mithral armor says:
"Mithral is a light, flexible metal. A mithral chain shirt or breastplate can be worn under normal clothes. If the armor normally imposes disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks or has a Strength requirement, the mithral version of the armor doesn’t."
It is a light flexible metal, it can be worn under clothes (so it can't be bulky), it doesn't impose disadvantage on stealth checks so it isn't particularly noisy.
So items from it should weigh less than their regular material counterparts - but they don't unless the DM house rules it. Personally, I do. I allow Mithral items to weight 1/2 as much as their regular counterparts so that Mithral half-plate is 20 pounds instead of 40 and a Mithral breastplate or chain shirt is 10 pounds instead of 20. Minor complaint, but I don't really understand why it was left out of 5e.
Yes, but is there anyone here who needs both hands to count the number of times encumbrance has actually come up as something you need to track or work around in play? It would make a nice bit of fluff, but it also makes sense to me that they just didn’t think about it.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
in the description for Mithral Armor it says "A mithral chain shirt or breastplate can be worn under normal clothes." does that mean only those two? or can other sets?
Yes, that means only those two.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)
It’s basically a nod to Lord of the Rings, where Frodo wore such a chain shirt under his regular clothes. Plus there’s just the practical consideration of how much material is involved in the various types.
Well, there are some non-mithral armors that can maybe be worn under normal clothes, but the main reason for adding that feature is that otherwise a mithral chain shirt or breastplate is useless. The normal benefit of mithral is that the armor doesn't give stealth penalties -- but a chain shirt or a breastplate already doesn't give stealth penalties, so they needed to give it some other benefit, and decided on concealable as the answer.
My main complaint about Mithral in 5e is that it doesn't change the weight of items that are made from it.
Mithral armor says:
"Mithral is a light, flexible metal. A mithral chain shirt or breastplate can be worn under normal clothes. If the armor normally imposes disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks or has a Strength requirement, the mithral version of the armor doesn’t."
It is a light flexible metal, it can be worn under clothes (so it can't be bulky), it doesn't impose disadvantage on stealth checks so it isn't particularly noisy.
So items from it should weigh less than their regular material counterparts - but they don't unless the DM house rules it. Personally, I do. I allow Mithral items to weight 1/2 as much as their regular counterparts so that Mithral half-plate is 20 pounds instead of 40 and a Mithral breastplate or chain shirt is 10 pounds instead of 20. Minor complaint, but I don't really understand why it was left out of 5e.
Yes, but is there anyone here who needs both hands to count the number of times encumbrance has actually come up as something you need to track or work around in play? It would make a nice bit of fluff, but it also makes sense to me that they just didn’t think about it.