Fluted Plate (3.5e Equipment)

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A suit of fluted plate armour.

Fluted Plate

Fluted Plate (Heavy)

Size	Humanoid Cost	Nonhumanoid Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Hit Points
Small	3500 gp	7000 gp	+8	25 lb.	60
Medium	3500 gp	7000 gp	+8	50 lb.	60

Non-Standard Sizes
Fine	1750 gp	3500 gp	+4	5 lb.	60
Diminutive	1750 gp	3500 gp	+4	5 lb.	60
Tiny	1750 gp	3500 gp	+4	5 lb.	60
Large	7000 gp	14000 gp	+8	100 lb.	60
Huge	14000 gp	28000 gp	+8	250 lb.	60
Gargantuan	28000 gp	56000 gp	+8	400 lb.	60
Colossal	56000 gp	112000 gp	+8	600 lb.	60

Maximum Dex Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Hardness
+1	-6	35%	10

Speed1
Base	20 ft.	30 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.	80 ft.	90 ft.	100 ft.
Armored	15 ft.	20 ft.	30 ft.	35 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	55 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.
When running in heavy armor, you move only triple your speed, not quadruple.

Don	Don Hastily	Remove
4 minutes2	4 minutes1	1d4+1 minutes1
If the character has some help, cut this time in half. A single character doing nothing else can help one or two adjacent characters. Two characters can't help each other don armor at the same time. The wearer must have help to don this armor. Without help, it can be donned only hastily.

Originally fashioned by royal blacksmiths at the behest of their kings to imitate the look of pleated tunics that the aristocracy of the time found fashionable, the fluted armor could be considered a flight of fancy that stuck, because as it turned out fluted armor is really, really good at averting heavy blows. The grooves in parallel fluting is sublimely resistant against both blades and blunt force, though ranged and piercing attacks have the unfortunate habit of getting caught in the fluting.

Fluted plate is functionally identical to full plate armor, with the following additions.

• Being heavily resistant to sundering, the fluted plate's hit points (both mundane and as a result of additional magical enhancement) are half again as much as that of an ordinary full plate.
• Fluted plate confers DR/piercing to its wearer, equal to one-third the hardness of the metal it is made out of. The AC bonus of this armor counts as 2 less when targeted by piercing weapons. Increased hardness from magical enhancement will also increase this damage reduction.
• Magical fluted plate has affinity for fortification. It automatically gains fortification equivalent to its raw magical enhancement bonus; Light fortification at +1, Medium fortification at +3, and Heavy fortification at +5.

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