Armour

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Armour in ME5e is quite different to DND5e.
Relevant changes:

• The chest peice determines base shields
• Armour peices can affect provide bonuses
• Armour peices can provide set bonuses

Armour Placement

Each armour peice can occupy one of 4 places:

• the head
• the chest
• the arms
• the legs
  An actor can only wear one peice of armour on each placement

AC

AC is no longer determined by the armour, rather it is flat for armour placment and weight class. The following table details the defaults:

Placement	Light	Medium	Heavy
Chest	+1 AC	+2 AC	+3 AC
Arms	No bonus	+1 AC	+2 AC
Legs	No bonus	+1 AC	+2 AC
Head	No bonus	No bonus	No bonus
Body	+1 AC	+4 AC	+7 AC

As always the armour peices can have properties that increase the amount of AC they provide

Dex bonus, strength requirement, stealth

The bonuses and limitations of armour are now dependant on how many of each weight class of armour your wearing, the following table details this:

If you're wearing...	Dex Bonus	Strength	Stealth
3+ pieces of Heavy armor	-	Str 16	Disadvantage
2 pieces of Heavy armor	-	Str 15	Disadvantage
1 piece of Heavy armor	-	Str 13	Disadvantage
3+ pieces of Medium armor	Max +2	Str 13	Disadvantage
2 pieces of Medium armor	Max +2	Str 12	-
1 piece of Medium armor	Max +2	-	-
Light or no armor	+ Dex modifier	-	-

Body Armor is considered three pieces (arms, chest, and legs)

Heavier armor interferes with the wearer’s ability to move quickly, stealthily, and freely. If the Armor Bonuses and Limitations table shows “Str 12” or “Str 16” in the Strength column for an armor type, the armor reduces the wearer’s speed by 4 meters unless the wearer has a Strength score equal to or higher than the listed score.

Shields

An actor's base shields is determined by their chest peice, by default this is 5 shield points and a regen of 5, hwoever most chest peices set this to different values. Armour peices can have properties that increase this.

Set Bonus

Armour peices can form sets with other armour peices. These can grant set bonuses which give extra depending on how much of the set you have equipped.