Armor

Armor increases your six defenses. Light, medium, and heavy armor, as well as shields, all follow the same basic principles.

Defenses

Defense	Defense Score
Armor Rating (AR)	10
Physical Defenses
Reflexes (REF)	10 + DEX
Fortitude (FORT)	10 + END
Mental Defenses
Anticipation (ANT)	10 + AWR
Logic (LOG)	10 + INT
Willpower (WILL)	10 + CHA

Your defenses, by default, are listed on the Defenses table.

Each of these numbers might be modified by the armor that you choose to wear.

On the Armor tables, each type of armor specifies your new AR, as well as listing modifiers to the five defenses that are based on your attributes.

STR, DEX, and Speed

Some medium armor and all heavy armor have a STR minimum, a DEX maximum, and a speed modifier.

If you don armor and your STR is less than the STR minimum, your speed becomes 0 and you gain the Dazed condition.

While wearing armor with a DEX maximum, your DEX cannot exceed that number; if your DEX was higher than that number, it is reduced to the DEX maximum while wearing such armor. This affects your REF defense.

If you have a speed modifier from your armor, apply it to the distance that you can move each time you spend AP. There are talents that can reduce this penalty.

Resistance Specialization

The Resist column on the armor allows you to apply Resist to certain kinds of damage, but you can only do so if you have taken a Second Skin talent that allows you to unlock this added bonus.

Heavy Armor

Heavy armor has the unwieldy tag when carrying it, but not while wearing it.

Shields

Each shield has the one-handed tag unless otherwise stated. While using a shield, you can only wield light weapons in your other hand, although talents can remove this restriction.

While they are listed as a type of armor, shields are unique given that they are strapped to your arm rather than worn. Shields do not prevent you from utilizing the benefits of talents that require you not to be wearing armor.

Barding

You can purchase barding, or specialized armor, for an animal. This can be any armor besides shields. Barding costs twice the normal sc of armor if the animal is Medium or smaller. It costs four times the normal sc if the animal is Large, and eight times the sc if Huge. Creatures larger than Huge cannot have barding unless the MC decides otherwise.

Armor Enhancements. Harker's Guide for Vampire Hunting.

Armor Enhancements allow you to modify the stats of the armor that you already own.

Armor List

Light Armor

Armor	AR	REF	FORT	ANT	LOG	WILL	STR min	DEX max	Speed	Resist	Cost
Cuirass (Leather)	12	+1	+1	-	-	-	-	-	-	Blunt 2	100
Gambeson	10	+1	+1	-	-	-	-	-	-	Cold 1, Blunt 1	12
Hide	11	-	+1	-	-	-	-	-	-	Cold 3	25
Leather	11	+1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Blunt 1	17
Robes (Command)	10	-	-	-	+1	+1	-	-	-	Psychic 3	22
Robes (Corruption)	10	-	+2	-	-	-	-	-	-	Necrotic 3, Corrosive 3, Toxic 3	55
Robes (Elemental)	11	+1	+1	-	-	-	-	-	-	Elemental 3	75
Robes (Mage)	10	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	-	-	-	Energy 2, Elemental 2	105
Robes (Starlight)	11	-	-	+1	+1	+2	-	-	-	Energy 2, Fire 2, Cold 2	90

Medium Armor

Armor	AR	REF	FORT	ANT	LOG	WILL	STR min	DEX max	Speed	Resist	Cost
Breastplate	13	-	-	-	-	-	2	8	-	Sharp 3	350
Breastplate (Gilded)	12	-	-	+1	+1	+2	1	-	-5 ft	Sharp 2, Psychic 2	450
Brigandine	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Sharp 2	40
Cuirass (Iron)	12	+1	+1	-	-	-	1	-	-	Sharp 2	500
Half Plate	14	-	-	-	-	-	2	8	-5 ft	Sharp 3	800
Lamellar	13	+1	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	Sharp 3	300
Leather-and-Steel	13	+1	+1	+1	-	-	-	-	-	Sharp 2	200
Scale Mail	13	+1	+1	-	-	-	2	6	-5 ft	Sharp 3	180
Splint Mail	14	+1	+1	-	-	-	2	6	-5ft	Sharp 2	400

Heavy Armor

Armor	AR	REF	FORT	ANT	LOG	WILL	STR min	DEX max	Speed	Resist	Cost
Branded Mail	14	-1	-	-	-	-	2	8	-5 ft	Physical 3	450
Chain Mail	14	-	-	-	-	-	2	8	-5 ft	Physical 2	250
Plate (Field)	15	-1	-	-	-	-	3	6	-5 ft	Physical 3	1200
Plate (Full)	15	-2	-	-	-	-	4	4	-10 ft	Physical 5	1500
Plate (Gilded)	15	-2	-	+1	+1	+3	4	4	-10 ft	Physical 3	2000

Shields

Armor	AR	REF	FOR	ANT	LOG	WILL	STR min	DEX max	Speed	Resist	Cost
Buckler	-	+2	-	+2	-	-	-	-	-	Physical 1	10
Heater Shield	+1	+1	-	+1	-	-	-	-	-	Physical 2	50
Kite Shield	+2	+1	+1	+1	-	-	-	-	-	Physical 2	60
Tower Shield*	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	10	-5 ft	-	100

*Tower Shield Tower shields have the two-handed and unwieldy tags. Rather than improving your AR or your other defenses, tower shields grant you Total Cover on one side. You may spend 2 AP to raise the shield, which grants Partial Cover (+1) to a creature standing directly behind you, provided that the creature is your Size or smaller.

Armor Enhancements

Source: Harker's Guide for Vampire Hunting

Armor Enhancements allow you to modify the stats of the armor that you already own. You may only have one enhancement equipped at a time. Add your enhancement’s defense bonuses, STR mins, and DEX max penalties to your suit of armor. If your armor had no DEX max, then subtract the enhancement’s DEX max from 12.

Armor Enhancements

Armor	AR	REF	FOR	ANT	LOG	WILL	STR min mod	DEX max mod	Speed	Resist	Tags	Cost	Source
Gargoyle Pauldrons	+2	-	+1	-	-	+1	+2	-2	-	Physical 2, Elemental 2	Enhancement	300	Harker's
Spiked Pauldrons*	+1	-	-	-	-	-	+1	-1	-	Physical 2	Enhancement, Special	200	Harker's

*Spiked Pauldrons When a creature first grapples you, if you are wearing spiked pauldrons, you may make a melee weapon attack for 1 Reactive AP. Use your STR against the grappling creature’s FORT. On a hit, deal 1d4 sharp damage.

*Updated v1.2