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Dragon armor is a formidable full-body armor that grants protection similar to that of a [[SRD:Full Plate Armor|full plate]], but is surprisingly easy to move around in. The most flexible dragonhide and lightweight chainmail makes the underlay, while the breast-and-back, tassets, pauldrons, armets, greaves, gauntlets and sabatons are made from interwoven dragonscale reinforced with ridges of dragonbone.
Dragon armor is hard to refit, and with mundane tools the fit can only be altered by up to a few percent from the original tailoring without using additional material. Since dragonhide, scale and bone are exceedingly rare and the armors were tailored to a specific user, there is an enormously competitive market for dragon armor, where suits are traded between collectors for highly inflated prices in the hopes of obtaining one that can be modified to provide a sufficient proper fit. Wearing dragon armor that isn't properly fit reduces the maximum [[SRD:Dexterity|Dexterity]] bonus to [[SRD:Armor Class|AC]] by 2, and increases the [[SRD:Armor Check Penalty|armor check penalty]] by 3. It is possible to refit a dragon armor to any body shape of a similar creature type and size category with the help of a ''[[SRD:Fabricate|fabricate]]'' spell, but the caster must also succeed in the [[SRD:Craft Skill|Craft]] checks necessary to craft the armor for the result to be effective.
Dragon armor is fashioned from the hide, scales and bone of a specific type of [[SRD:Dragon Type|dragon]]. The species of dragon determines some of the armor's effects, as below. Using only the premium parts, a [[SRD:Huge Size|Huge]] dragon or 2 [[SRD:Large Size|Large]] dragons is enough for 1 suit of dragon armor for a [[SRD:Medium Size|Medium]] creature. A [[SRD:Gargantuan Size|Gargantuan]] dragon can make 2 suits, and a [[SRD:Colossal Size|Colossal]] dragon can make 4 suits. The dragon armor is always [[SRD:Masterwork|masterwork]]; price and benefits are subsumed in the above statistics.
