Havel's Armor (3.5e Equipment)

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The iconic stone armor of Bishop Havel.

Havel's Armor

This monstrosity of stone is something that few humans can wear, but those that can manage to move around in it will find its protective qualities second to none.

Havel's Armor (Heavy)

Size	Humanoid Cost	Nonhumanoid Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Hit Points
Small	9000 gp	18000 gp	+11	70 lb.	70
Medium	9000 gp	18000 gp	+11	140 lb.	70

Non-Standard Sizes
Fine	4500 gp	9000 gp	+5	14 lb.	70
Diminutive	4500 gp	9000 gp	+5	14 lb.	70
Tiny	4500 gp	9000 gp	+5	14 lb.	70
Large	18000 gp	36000 gp	+11	280 lb.	70
Huge	36000 gp	72000 gp	+11	700 lb.	70
Gargantuan	72000 gp	144000 gp	+11	1120 lb.	70
Colossal	144000 gp	288000 gp	+11	1680 lb.	70

Maximum Dex Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Hardness
+0	-14	80%	10

Speed
Base	20 ft.	30 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.	80 ft.	90 ft.	100 ft.
Armored	10 ft.	15 ft.	20 ft.	25 ft.	30 ft.	35 ft.	40 ft.	45 ft.	50 ft.

Don	Don Hastily	Remove
10 minutes2	2d4+2 minutes1	2d4+2 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.

Havel's Armor is an exotic armor, requiring both proficiency and heavy armor and Exotic Armor Proficiency to wear without penalty.

Bishop Havel, also known as Havel the Rock, was known for his great strength and his vehement hatred of sorcery. This armor protected him from his enemies throughout his many campaigns. Replicas of this armor were made by Havel's supporters and underlings, and several of these unique suits of armor have stood the test of time, carrying the name of its original wearer into the new age. Havel's armor consists of a leather underlay on which interlocking plates of worked stone have been riveted into the general construction of a stone full plate. Certain areas of the armor, like the gauntlets, are further reinforced by steel chains.

To wear this armor without penalty, its weight must be equivalent to a light load for you. Standardly, for a Medium creature this requires a minimum Strength score of 21 (or 13 with the help of Havel's ring). Not meeting this prerequisite makes you count as nonproficient with the armor. If the armor alone is enough to account for a heavy load, you can only stagger around in it. Havel's armor is always masterwork; price and benefits are subsumed in the above statistics.

Havel's armor provides the following benefits when worn, on top of its general protective capabilities:

• You gain DR 5/bludgeoning.
• Against arcane spells, you gain a +2 bonus to saving throws and spell dampening 2. This stacks with the bonuses from Havel's greatshield and the Dragon's Tooth.
• You gain the Hyper Armor quality of the Shrekken Touched template.
• The gauntlets of the armor function as heavy gauntlets and can be separately enhanced as such.

Havel's armor may be magically enhanced as though it was a mundane armor. The benefits granted by the armor are equivalent to a +2 armor quality; as such, enhancing it further carries the commensurate cost. Adding a +1 enhancement costs the same as enhancing a +2 armor to +3, i.e. 5,000 gp. Enhancement bonus and qualities totalling no more than +8 can be added to the armor.

Havel's armor cannot be repaired with mundane tools, as it is made of stone. Repairing a damaged Havel's armor requires the aid of magic that mends equipment or creates or transforms stone, such as make whole, stone shape or transmute mud to rock. Repairing a Havel's armor without the aid of these things requires the broken stone pieces to be hewn anew, which requires a DC 35 Craft (stoneworking) check and 50 gp worth of material per point of damage needing to be restored.

Craft (stoneworking and leatherworking) DC 35. Market Price 9,000 gp.

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