Is the speed decrease with medium and heavy armor inherent to the armor type (medium, heavy), or to the type of armor (breastplate, full plate)? If I buy a mithral breastplate and have it count as light for all things except proficiency, does it remove the decreased move speed (30 to 20, 20 to 15)? Does elven chain (actual light armor) keep the 20/15 ft move speed reduction?
With Mithral Armor, treat it as one category lighter for every purpose except proficiency.
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.
Mithral Breastplate is treated as light armor for purposes of movement. Thus, no reduction in movement speed.
Elven Chain is actually light armor for every purpose (including proficiency). So no reduction in movement speed.
Thanks. I missed the "for movement" portion of that sentence then.
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With Mithral Armor, treat it as one category lighter for every purpose except proficiency.
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.Mithral Breastplate is treated as light armor for purposes of movement. Thus, no reduction in movement speed.
Elven Chain is actually light armor for every purpose (including proficiency). So no reduction in movement speed.
Bingo.
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.
Medium Mithral armor has no speed reduction.
Heavy Mithral armor has x4 run speed.This armor is treated, in all ways, like light armor, including when determining proficiency.
Elven Chain has no speed reduction.
movespeed is based off of current classification for the character. Meaning mithral breastplate (probably the most common armor) has no speed reduction (one of the big reasons even non-dex people will buy this armor)
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There is also a relevant FAQ on this;
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.