Can a character in Mithral Chainmail make use of both the Barbarian's Fast Movement and the Rogue's Evasion class features?
yes, it counts as light armor for class abilities' restrictions.
Excellent...
Thanks for the quick reply!
But that character would have to be proficient with medium armor, a problem only if the rogue is not multiclassed in something with medium armor proficiency, like, say, barbarian.
Klorox wrote: But that character would have to be proficient with medium armor, a problem only if the rogue is not multiclassed in something with medium armor proficiency, like, say, barbarian. Or take a trait that reduces the ACP to zero.
Mithral already reduces it to -2. Also, Fast Movement already works with Medium armor (so it would work with a mithral full plate, though the -3 ACP would be a problem). I'm a bit surprised the ACP for full plate is barely more than that of chainmail (don't be cheap, go for a breastplate if you wear medium armor).
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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.
Mithral is a very rare silvery, glistening metal that is lighter than steel but just as hard. When worked like steel, it becomes a wonderful material from which to create armor, and is occasionally used for other items as well. Most mithral armors are one category lighter than normal for purposes of movement and other limitations. Heavy armors are treated as medium, and medium armors are treated as light, but light armors are still treated as light. This decrease does not apply to proficiency in wearing the armor.
If you don't want to take the proficiency, you can go with Elven Chain instead. Non magical specific armor that is effectively mithril chainmail that does count as light armor for proficiency. It is 1k more then normal mithril chainmail. But since it's non-magical you can then enchant it with whatever you want, even in PFS.
The restriction (last I checked) was against modifying named magic items. Elven Chain is not a magic item.
Thanks for all the responses. This was to make sure my 9th level PFS-CORE character worked as I thought she did. Her most recent level up (way back in april) added 1 level of Barbarian to an already motley mix of multiclassing.Very unique and fun, but far from optimized.
Cleric of Urgathoa 3
Fighter 2
Shadowdancer 3
Barbarian 1
50ft. movement, Evasion, and next level Improved Uncanny Dodge. All while wearing +1 Mithral Chainmail of Shadow.
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