| zainale |
if a armor or medium armor says it has 30 movement does it still slow you down? like the Armored Kilt and a mithral chain shirt gets bumped up to medium armor. does it get a reduction in speed because of the kilt?
for peicemeal armor i was wanting to use chain Torso Armor Piece made of mithral with studded armor leg armor and steel lamellar armor all of which has 30ft speed. the mithral chain is a medium armor though.
if it says 30 ft but is medium armor does it slow you down? if you can think of a better way of asking by all means.
| Bob Bob Bob |
I can't actually answer the mithral chain shirt + armored kilt one, as that's an order of operations thing (the current wording is "When you add an armored kilt to a suit of light armor, the set counts as medium armor."). Does it become medium and then light or is it the reverse (light which can't get any lighter, which becomes medium).
The rest are easier. Chain Torso is only light if worn alone and medium otherwise. The rules say "Mithral armor pieces are less cumbersome to move in. Medium armor pieces that feature a reduced movement do not have a reduced movement when they are made from mithral." So a mithral Chain Torso and those other pieces (assuming they all say your speed is unencumbered) would let you move at full speed in that piecemeal armor.
if your armor is medium do you get a -10 to your base speed no matter what it says on the table?
I have no idea what you mean here. If you are "encumbered", which happens at medium+ armor or medium+ load, your speed is reduced, but what it's reduced to depends on your base speed. Here's the table. It just lists 30 feet and 20 feet as those are the standard PC speeds. If you're a barbarian or monk or something with a bonus to speed (or a horse or other animal companion) then you find your base speed on the table and use that.
| zainale |
well for the peicemeal armors on the tables that list everything it also lists its speeds chain mail is a medium armor with a land base speed of 30.
type cost armor bonus dex bonus armor check spell failure
Chain 100 gp +4 +4 -2 30%
speed weight
--->30 ft.<---/20 ft. 25 lbs.
do i go by the table says or by what medium armor rule says or some other rule?
| Bob Bob Bob |
You're missing the little superscript 3 on the Chain, which says:
These armor pieces are considered to be one weight category lower when worn with no other armor pieces. A chain torso armor piece worn alone is a chain shirt (light armor), and a plate or agile plate torso armor piece is a breastplate (medium armor).
Since you're adding arms and legs, it no longer counts as light armor (which is where the speed of 30 comes from) and instead is treated like medium armor (which means it reduces your speed as normal).
The table value is only if you wear it by itself. If you don't, it's medium armor (and reduces your speed normally).
| Bob Bob Bob |
The rest are easier. Chain Torso is only light if worn alone and medium otherwise. The rules say "Mithral armor pieces are less cumbersome to move in. Medium armor pieces that feature a reduced movement do not have a reduced movement when they are made from mithral." So a mithral Chain Torso and those other pieces (assuming they all say your speed is unencumbered) would let you move at full speed in that piecemeal armor.