Armor

Armor can do two things: absorb damage and deflect blows.

Light armor is good at damage absorption, but minimally useful for deflecting blows.

Heavy armor is great at both.

Base Armor

• "Prof" is your proficiency bonus, if proficient in that armor type
• Fortification means that a confirmation roll is required to inflict critical hits against you. Example:
  • You are proficient with heavy armor and have an AC of 10 + prof (+3) + Str (+3), or 16.
  • Enemy attacks you, rolling a natural 20, hitting automatically with a critical hit.
  • Since you have Fortification, the enemy must roll another attack.
    • If that attack misses your AC, the original hit still succeeds, but is not a critical hit.
    • If the confirmation attack hits your AC, the critical hit succeeds, inflicting critical damage.

Exceptional Quality

Exceptional Materials

Normal armor is made of materials ideal for ordinary use cases, costing a reasonable amount. For example:

• Light armor typically uses dense cloth, leather, hide, fur, and/or bone.
• Heavy armor typically uses iron and steel, bonded to a heavy base of dense cloth and/or leather.

There are other materials that can be used, which have their own advantages and disadvantages.

TBD

Magical Enhancements

• Glamered
• Silenced
• Invisibility
• Etherealness
• Summonable
• Invulnerability
• Energy Resist