[Glorantha] Scale armour

:Lorgryt wrote, in ansver to my pained reaction to "studded leather"

>scale armour, mail, hoplite style plate and modern 1500+ plate.
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

:Lorgryt wrote, in ansver to my pained reaction to "studded leather"
:
:By this I assume you mean Jazeraint, not just the D&D armor with the word
:mail dropped.

You lost me there. Jazeraint, as far as I can figure out, is an obscure name for a type of brigandine. Studded leather is what happens when a person looks at a tapestry depiction of brigandine, and makes up a wonderful theory about the armour he thinks he is seeing.

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:My point being two fold Adept: 1 ) Even you are not using the correct
:terms, just more of English Victorian Archeology. And 2 ) It is a Game,
:not a history dissertation. While accuracy is wonderful I think the 100
years of information/imagery/literature that was all wrong has as much (if
:not more) power than the correct terms.

Here I guess you are referring to my use of "scale armour". That is term used by modern archeologist as well as weapons&armour recreators. Scale armour refers to a range of armour styles;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_armour

Mostly I was thinking about things like the roman Lorica Squamata

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorica_squamata

And ancient egyptian bronze scale armour.

And about the powerful imagery of ringmail and studded leather... ugh. I can't get my gamers to swallow things like that, so obviously it doesn't work here. To each his/her own, I guess.

        -Adept

Thinker, dreamer and adventurer Received on Wed 20 Sep 2006 - 10:56:21 EEST