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Specific Armors

Adamantine Breastplate

Aura: no aura (nonmagical)
CLl: &mdash
Price: 10,200 gp
Weight: 30 lbs.

Description

This nonmagical breastplate is made of adamantine, giving its wearer damage reduction of 2/—.

Banded Mail of Luck

Aura: strong enchantment
CLl: 12th
Price: 18,900 gp
Weight: 35 lbs.

Description

Ten 100-gp gems adorn this +3 banded mail. Once per week, the armor allows its wearer to require that an attack roll made against him be rerolled. He must take whatever consequences come from the second roll. The wearer's player must decide whether to have the attack roll rerolled before damage is rolled.

Breastplate of Command

Aura: strong enchantment
CLl: 15th
Price: 25,400 gp
Weight: 30 lbs.

Description

This +2 breastplate bestows a commanding aura upon its wearer. The wearer gains a +2 competence bonus on all Charisma checks, including Charisma-based skill checks. The wearer also gains a +2 competence bonus to his Leadership score. Friendly troops within 360 feet of the user become braver than normal, gaining a +2 resistance bonus on saving throws against fear. Since the effect arises in great part from the distinctiveness of the armor, it does not function if the wearer hides or conceals herself in any way.

Celestial Armor

Aura: faint transmutation [good]
CLl: 5th
Price: 22,400 gp
Weight: 20 lbs.

Description

This bright silver or gold +3 chainmail is so fine and light that it can be worn under normal clothing without betraying its presence. It has a maximum Dexterity bonus of +8, an armor check penalty of –2, and an arcane spell failure chance of 15%. It is considered light armor and allows the wearer to use fly on command (as the spell) once per day.

Demon Armor

Aura: strong necromancy [evil]
CLl: 13th
Price: 52,260 gp
Weight: 50 lbs.

Description

This plate armor is fashioned to make the wearer appear to be a demon. The helmet is shaped to look like a horned demon head, and its wearer looks out of the open, tooth-filled mouth. This +4 full plate allows the wearer to make claw attacks that deal 1d10 points of damage, strike as +1 weapons, and afflict the target as if she had been struck by a contagion spell (Fortitude DC 14 negates). Use of contagion requires a normal melee attack with the claws. The “claws” are built into the armor's vambraces and gauntlets, and cannot be disarmed.

A suit of demon armor is infused with evil, and as a result it bestows one negative level on any nonevil creature wearing it. This negative level persists as long as the armor is worn and disappears when the armor is removed. The negative level cannot be overcome in any way (including restoration spells) while the armor is worn.

Dwarven Plate

Aura: no aura (nonmagical)
CLl: &mdash
Price: 16,500 gp
Weight: 50 lbs.

Description

This full plate is made of adamantine, giving its wearer damage reduction of 3/—.

Dragonhide Plate

Aura: no aura (nonmagical)
CLl: &mdash
Price: 3,300 gp
Weight: 50 lbs.

DESCRIPTION

This suit of full plate is made of dragonhide, rather than metal, so druids can wear it. It is otherwise identical to masterwork full plate.

Elven Chain

Aura: no aura (nonmagical)
CLl: &mdash
Price: 5,150 gp
Weight: 20 lbs.

DESCRIPTION

This extremely light chainmail is made of very fine mithral links. This armor is treated, in all ways, like light armor, including when determining proficiency. The armor has an arcane spell failure chance of 20%, a maximum Dexterity bonus of +4, and an armor check penalty of –2.

Mithral Full Plate of Speed

Aura: faint transmutation
CLl: 5th
Price: 26,500 gp
Weight: 25 lbs.

Description

As a free action, the wearer of this fine set of +1 mithral full plate can activate it, enabling him to act as though affected by a haste spell for up to 10 rounds each day. The duration of the haste effect need not be consecutive rounds.

The armor has an arcane spell failure chance of 25%, a maximum Dexterity bonus of +3, and an armor check penalty of –3. It is considered medium armor, except that you must be proficient in heavy armor to avoid taking nonproficiency penalties.

Mithral Shirt

Aura: no aura (nonmagical)
CLl: &mdash
Price: 1,100 gp
Weight: 10 lbs.

DESCRIPTION

This extremely light chain shirt is made of very fine mithral links. The armor has an arcane spell failure chance of 10%, a maximum Dexterity bonus of +6, and no armor check penalty. It is considered light armor.

Plate Armor of the Deep

Aura: moderate abjuration
CLl: 11th
Price: 24,650 gp
Weight: 50 lbs.

Description

This +1 full plate is decorated with a wave and fish motif. Although the armor remains as heavy and bulky as normal full plate, the wearer of plate armor of the deep is treated as unarmored for purposes of Swim checks. The wearer can breathe underwater and can converse with any water-breathing creature with a language.

Rhino Hide

Aura: moderate transmutation
CLl: 9th
Price: 5,165 gp
Weight: 25 lbs.

Description

This +2 hide armor is made from rhinoceros hide. In addition to granting a +2 enhancement bonus to AC, it has a –1 armor check penalty and deals an additional 2d6 points of damage on any successful charge attack made by the wearer, including a mounted charge.