Hydraulic Plate (3.5e Equipment)

Author: Eiji-kun (talk) Date Created: 3-21-10 Status: Complete Editing: Mechanical changes on Talk please.

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Hydraulic Plate

The heaviest of heavy armor, hydraulic plate is built superficially like full plate, covering the entire body in metal. However, it significantly bulks the user up, for the metal plates are so thick no man could conceivably move within it. Therefore between the outer armor and the user inside is a complex rubbery layer of fluid bladders which shift and move as the user does, adding extra pressure on certain joints to allow the otherwise immobile joint motion, and allow the user to move, hence the hydraulics in hydraulic plate.

Note that movement is much more clunky than normal walking, and so the penalties for this armor are much more severe.

Donning hydraulic plate takes twice as long as donning full plate.

Hydraulic Plate (Heavy)

Size	Humanoid Cost	Nonhumanoid Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Hit Points
Small	2000 gp	4000 gp	+12	50 lb.	40
Medium	2000 gp	4000 gp	+12	100 lb.	40

Non-Standard Sizes
Fine	1000 gp	2000 gp	+6	10 lb.	40
Diminutive	1000 gp	2000 gp	+6	10 lb.	40
Tiny	1000 gp	2000 gp	+6	10 lb.	40
Large	4000 gp	8000 gp	+12	200 lb.	40
Huge	8000 gp	16000 gp	+12	500 lb.	40
Gargantuan	16000 gp	32000 gp	+12	800 lb.	40
Colossal	32000 gp	64000 gp	+12	1200 lb.	40

Maximum Dex Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Hardness
+0	−10	50%	10

Speed
Base	20 ft.	30 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.	80 ft.	90 ft.	100 ft.
Armored	10 ft.	15 ft.	20 ft.	25 ft.	30 ft.	35 ft.	40 ft.	45 ft.	50 ft.

Don	Don Hastily	Remove
8 minutes2	8 minutes1	2d4+2 minutes1
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. The wearer must have help to don this armor. Without help, it can be donned only hastily.

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