Is it possible to have a set of wooden armor made of darkleaf cloth?
The latter material says it only works on leather, fur or hide armors. However, it also says it uses bark, which is essentially what wooden armor would be made out of anyways.
This suit of leather armor has plates of fire-treated wood sewn over vital areas. Though not as effective as metal armor, it offers better protection than leather alone. Unlike metal armor, the wood is slightly buoyant.
Because darkleaf cloth remains flexible, it cannot be used to construct rigid items such as shields or metal armors.
While darkleaf cloth does use wood in it's construction it's used more like a fiber to make a soft cloth, rather than the rigid plates used in wooden armor.
Wood isn't always rigid, but the use of the word "plates" certainly does seem to imply rigidity.
Are you asking if you can make a set of wooden armor out of the non-wood parts of a specific kind of tree, such as darkwood?
I would assume that in this particular case, you ARE using darkleaf cloth in lieu of any leather parts, just as you ARE using darkwood in lieu of any oaken (example) parts.
One of my favorite armors was leather scalemail, that you could make out of darkleaf.
But if you want to make a wooden version of a metal armor, you need to use wood, or something that could be similiar, like bone, ivory, shell, horn, or something more exotic that could be carved such as amber, dragon claws, rock, nuts, cyclopean kidney stones, giant pearls, fired toadstools or whatever.
Wood isn't always rigid, but the use of the word "plates" certainly does seem to imply rigidity.
Also the fire-treating process is specifically used to harden wood.
One thing I'll mention, and I may be reading into this too much, is that I can totally see why you would want to use darkleaf cloth rather than darkwood for your wooden armor's non-metalic mithril stand in.
Unfortunately Darkwood seems to only have been designed with shields and weapons in mind, so it ignores maximum dex bonus and arcane spell failure. A generous GM might slightly expand the bonuses of darkwood to bring it in line with darkleaf, but should probably also adjust darkwood's very cheap pricing to also fall in line with that of darkleaf.
Is it possible to have a set of wooden armor made of darkleaf cloth?
The latter material says it only works on leather, fur or hide armors. However, it also says it uses bark, which is essentially what wooden armor would be made out of anyways.
Wood armor should be made out of wood, bark is not wood.
Some bark can be made into fabric-like material, hence its inclusion in the Darkleaf text.
I think it is fairly obvious that darkleaf cloth is a flexible fabric (hence the term cloth) so only armors made from flexible fabric like materials can be replicated using it.
