Armor of Thorns (3.5e Equipment)

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The armor of the Knight of Thorns.

Armor of Thorns

This suit of blackened plate and mail-backed leather is festooned with sharp, jagged spikes designed to make any foe think twice before daring to attack.

Armor of Thorns (Medium)

Size	Humanoid Cost	Nonhumanoid Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Hit Points
Small	3800 gp	7600 gp	+4	20 lb.	40
Medium	3800 gp	7600 gp	+4	40 lb.	40

Non-Standard Sizes
Fine	1900 gp	3800 gp	+3	4 lb.	40
Diminutive	1900 gp	3800 gp	+3	4 lb.	40
Tiny	1900 gp	3800 gp	+3	4 lb.	40
Large	7600 gp	15200 gp	+4	80 lb.	40
Huge	15200 gp	30400 gp	+4	200 lb.	40
Gargantuan	30400 gp	60800 gp	+4	320 lb.	40
Colossal	60800 gp	121600 gp	+4	480 lb.	40

Maximum Dex Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Hardness
+3	-3	25%	10

Speed
Base	20 ft.	30 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.	80 ft.	90 ft.	100 ft.
Armored	15 ft.	20 ft.	30 ft.	35 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	55 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.

Don	Don Hastily	Remove
4 minutes1	1 minute	1 minute1
If the character has some help, cut this time in half. A single character doing nothing else can help one or two adjacent characters. Two characters can't help each other don armor at the same time.

Once worn by a group of warriors that stole the souls of their slain enemies. Every part of this armor seems in some way designed to bring harm to those around it. However, due to this heavy emphasis on offense in its construction, the breastplate itself is lacking in terms of protection compared to other, more conventional plate armors. The armor of thorns is fashioned from crude black iron and standardly contains armor spikes. Both the armor of thorns and its spikes are always masterwork; price and benefits are subsumed in the above statistics.

The armor of thorns grants the following benefits when worn, on top of its general protective capabilities:

• Armor of thorns counts as a masterwork skill tool for the Tumble skill and for grapple checks. The armor's armor check penalty does not apply to Tumble checks.
• Enemies attacking you in melee with a non-reach weapon provoke attacks of opportunity from you, but they may only be taken with your armor spikes.
• You gain the benefits of the Blade Rampart feat, but only with respects to your armor spikes.
• You may make a free attack with your armor spikes against any enemy you tumble past, but only once per round per individual enemy. If you tumble through a square occupied by an enemy, you get a +4 bonus to the attack roll.

Craft (armorsmithing and blacksmithing) DC 29. Market Price 3,800 gp.

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