Simpler Better Fantasy Armor with Edge Protection

My own take on

https://noschoolgrognard.blogspot.com/p/better-fantasy-armor.html

and

https://www.gamesdiner.com/2007/01/edge-protection-armor-enhancement-for-gurps-4e/

 and

https://jetgurps.blogspot.com/2014/04/super-edge-protection-part-1-adding-to.html 

Simplified for my personal usage. 

Low Tech Armor Table

The armor on this table covers all body parts except Neck, Face and Eyes.

Armor

DR

Cost

Weight

Layer

Bulk

Thick Clothing

1/21

95

11.4

Padding

Thin

Cloth Aketon, & Padded boots

3/61

285

34.2

Outer

Light

Leather Clothing

2/42

114

24.7

Outer

Light

Leather Gambeson & Boots

3/62

171

37

Outer

Medium

Scale Folidotos, & Boots

5/103

1,187

47.5

Outer

Medium

Scale Lorica Squamata

8/163

1,900

76

Outer

Heavy

Mail Voiders

3/63

1,425

17.1

Inner

Thin

Light Mail

5/103

2,375

28.5

Outer

Light

Mail

7/143

3,325

39.9

Outer

Medium

Heavy Mail

9/183

4,275

51.3

Outer

Heavy

Segmented Plate

4/83

2,128

30.6

Outer

Medium

Munitions Plate

7/143

4,655

46.5

Outer

Medium

Plate Armor

10/203

6,650

66.5

Outer

Heavy

Heavy Plate Armor*

13/263

8,645

86.4

Outer

Jousting

Full Plate Armor**

14/203

10165

95

Padding, Inner, Outer

Heavy

Heavy Full Plate Armor***

17/263

12160

115

Padding, Inner, Outer

Jousting

*-1DX unless you have Armor Mastery or are SM +1

**-3 DX without Armor Mastery

***-4 DX without Armor Mastery, -1DX with Armor master. No penalty with Armor Master and SM +1.

1 Fibrous Armor: Any Impaling damage below the second value is turned into Crushing.

2 Leather Armor: Any Cutting damage below the second value is turned into Crushing.

3Edge Protection: Any Cutting or Impaling damage below the second value is turned into Crushing.

 

Armor Modifiers

Layering Armor: You can have up to 3 layers of armor (Padding, Inner and Outer), each adding -1 to DX without the appropriate advantage to negate.

Cheap Armor: Used and unfitting armor. multiply the price by 0.6 and the weight by 1.25. This is only really worth it for Mail, cheap mail is slightly more expensive than scale, but much lighter. Cheap scale is very heavy, and cheap plate is worse than mail and still more expensive.

 

Armor Pieces

The armor table shows full body armor, that protects all parts of the body, except the neck, face and eyes. To buy armor that protects only a small part, multiply the price and weight by the modifier in the table below:

Location

Modifier

Skull

4%

Face*

3%

Neck*

2%

Torso

33%

Arms

27%

Legs

35%

*Armor that protects the face gives tunnel vision and -4 to Perception. Also you cannot protect the eyes without becoming effectively blind!

*Anyone who wears heavy armor on their neck suffers a -1 penalty to DX as if he was layering an extra layer of armor.

 

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