[Glorantha] No "studded leather" please

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Tue Sep 19 14:00:36 2006

• Mikko Rintasaari <rintasaa_at_mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:
  > Argh! Let's not go there.
  

Seconded.

> Studded Leather, ringmail and the other D&D:isms
> are all from one particularily bad book, and are
> names invented by a
> person looking at a bleeding tapestry!

And "chainmail" is a phrase that should only ever be used in conjunction with "bikini", not when talking about armour. You can blame the Victorians for that one.

> Leather armour is leather. For most of history that
> has meant cuirboulle.
> Hardened leather. Pretty darn good armour, by the
> way. In addition we have
> scale armour, mail, hoplite style plate and modern
> 1500+ plate.

To attempt to be fair, armour that looks like leather with studs in does exist. Those studs are holding the metal plates underneath. It forms a brigandine, and very nice armour too.                                   

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