Hi All.
This is a question to clarify the FAQ item below, in particular the "other limitations" part.
Mithral armor: What exactly does it mean when it says mithral armor is counted as one category lighter for “other limitations?”
This means that mithral armor allows its wearer to use it when her own class features or special abilities demand her to wear lighter armor; in other words, the character wearing the armor is less limited. For example, a bard can cast spells in mithral breastplate without arcane spell failure, a barbarian can use her fast movement in mithral fullplate, a ranger can use his combat style in mithral fullplate, brawlers, swashbucklers, and gunslingers can keep their nimble bonus in mithral breastplate, rogues keep evasion in mithral breastplate, a brawler can flurry in mithral breastplate, characters without Endurance can sleep in mithral breastplate without becoming fatigued, and so on. It does not change the armor’s actual category, which means that you can still store a creature one size category larger in a hosteling mithral fullplate, and you can’t enhance a mithral breastplate with special abilities that require it to be light armor, like brawling (though you could enhance it with special abilities that require it to be medium armor), and so on.
The details...
* I have an Aasimar with Angel Wings
* I'm wearing Mithral Fullplate (so get -3 on my Fly check and Poor Manoeuvrability)
Does the ruling above mean that the Mithral armour will not reduce my manoeuvrability to Poor as I would not have this limitation when wearing light armour?
Thanks
George
Mithral armor is one category lighter for everything except proficiency. Mithral full plate is medium (not light) rather than heavy armor for just about everything; angel wings has reduced effectiveness with both medium and heavy armor so will still have the worse figures in mithral full plate.
Thanks avr. You will understand based on my other post that I'm trying to deal with this by improving my manoeuvrability by other means.