New material idea.

[thomas nelson]

OK so Ultimate Combat basically forced this idea, here we go:

Silk

Harvested from silkworms silk is lighter than traditional linens and stronger than normal cloth and lighter.

Armor made from silk weighs half as much as normal cloth armor and has a 5% lower spell failure rate.

Cost
Cloth items made of silk cost five times what normal cloth items cost.

[Sphen]

Not to be rude, but is this a serious post?

[Unimportant]

Sphen wrote:

Not to be rude, but is this a serious post?

Ghengis Khan's troops wore silk shirts under their armor to blunt arrow points. In a fantasy setting it's not a big stretch to make it an actual armor type itself.

Personally, I saved this post off for future reference.

[thomas nelson]

Sphen wrote:

Not to be rude, but is this a serious post?

Yes, Silk is a real armor material. Some of the first ballistic vests where made of 13 layers of silk and where effective at stopping or significantly lowering the penetration of black powder weapons.

I figure if people can get silk rope that weights half and there is a eastern style of reinforced silk armor that has no spell failure rate available then one should be able to make standard cloth armor and quilted cloth out of silk for half weight.

[Sphen]

Okay. I just didn't know the historical standards here.