Hard Vest (3.5e Equipment)

Hard Vest
This armor look exactly like clothing with special, complex pattern underneath. While it offer very minimal protection with few inconvenient of typical armor it offer one particular advantage. The complex innovative patterns become much more effective when made of atypical material, when made of dilatantoplastic, dordweave, drowsilk or kevlarium. When made of such material the armor bonus granted by the hard vest increase by 2 (in additional to all benefits granted by the material). Additionally the hard vest count as medium armor for the purpose of receiving bonuses from material (but not penalties), if it enhanced it count as heavy armor instead.

A hard vest made of dilatantoplastic or drowsilk count as non-armor for the purpose of interacting with feat, class abilities and similar, allowing monk to wear it without penalties.

Additionally the armor is removed extremely easily since it effectively clothing.