Royal Plate (3.5e Equipment)

Author: Ganteka Future (talk) Date Created: 1 August 2015 Status: Royal Blue Steel v1.1 Editing: Clarity if necessary.

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Royal Plate

This heavier plate armor is designed for use in tournaments as well as protecting important figures on the battlefield. The statistics represented here are for steel royal plate, but more often it is constructed from exotic materials.

Royal Plate (Heavy)

Size	Humanoid Cost	Nonhumanoid Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Hit Points
Small	2400 gp	4800 gp	+9	30 lb.	40
Medium	2400 gp	4800 gp	+9	60 lb.	40

Non-Standard Sizes
Fine	1200 gp	2400 gp	+4	6 lb.	40
Diminutive	1200 gp	2400 gp	+4	6 lb.	40
Tiny	1200 gp	2400 gp	+4	6 lb.	40
Large	4800 gp	9600 gp	+9	120 lb.	40
Huge	9600 gp	19200 gp	+9	300 lb.	40
Gargantuan	19200 gp	38400 gp	+9	480 lb.	40
Colossal	38400 gp	76800 gp	+9	720 lb.	40

Maximum Dex Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Hardness
+1	–10	50%	10

Speed1
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.
When running in heavy armor, you move only triple your speed, not quadruple.

Don	Don Hastily	Remove
4 minutes2	4 minutes1	1d4+1 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.

Royal plate is always masterwork and often highly decorated with elaborate gilding and etching. The suit of plate includes a pair of masterwork gauntlets, heavy boots, a visored helmet, a reinforced layer of padding and extra mail that is worn underneath the outer plate. When worn, the suit functions as a masterwork tool for Diplomacy, Intimidate and Ride.

A suit of royal plate must be crafted by a master armorsmith (with at least 10 ranks in the associated skill) and individually fitted to its owner. A suit may be resized for a new owner at 1/4th the cost of the armor itself. Unfitted armor has an armor check penalty, armor bonus and maximum Dexterity bonus each 1 point worse than normal.

A wearer with the appropriate exotic armor proficiency increases the armor's armor bonus and maximum Dexterity bonus by +1 and reduces the armor's armor check penalty by 4. Additionally, such a proficient wearer requires no help donning or removing the armor.

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