� Armour Protection. An armoured location can prevent a number of hits (weapon blows) from causing a wound to that area for the duration of each encounter. The number of hits prevented per encounter depends upon the type armour; as listed below. Only areas actually covered by the armour physrep will receive such protection; therefore an opponent may take advantage of exposed areas of an armoured location.
� Armour Damage. If an armoured location receives the maximum amount of hits it can prevent during a single encounter it is damaged. Damage reduces the amount of hits the armoured location can prevent by 1 until repaired. Although a single armoured location can only be damaged once during an encounter, damage may accumulate over further encounters until the armour is rendered useless.
� Armour Repairs. Each type of armour has an average cost to restore 1 hit�s worth of protection to a location. You will have to pay multiple times to restore more than 1 hit and to repair more than one location. Repairs can only restore damage not increase the assigned maximum protection of the armour.
� Armour and Enchanted Weapons. Armour cannot protect against enchanted weapons. Furthermore enchanted hits will automatically damage an armoured location.
� Leather Armour. Fur, padded armour, light leather and heavy leather cannot protect or receive damage against hits from arrows or crossbow bolts; rules-wise the armour is simply ignored by such hits. Studs do not convey any further protection to leather armour.
� Metal Armour. Ring, chain, scale and plate mail will always protect against 1 hit per encounter however much damage it may recieve during an adventure. Metal armour cannot be bandaged over to heal wounds. A healer must find a way of bandaging under such armour or use alternative methods of healing.
� Stacking Armour. Those with the prerequisite ability may stack two layers of armour to offer increased protection. These two layers have a combined repair cost and amount of protection when stacked together. Stacked armour is considered to have the properties of metal armour. Anyone may add a layer of light armour but this does not yield any benifits beyond comfort or decoration.
ARMOUR TYPE HITS REPAIR
Fur, padded, light leather Leather 1 -/1
Heavy leather Leather 2 -/3
Mail(scale,chain,ring) Metal 3 -/8
Plate armour Metal 4 1/-
Chain/heavy leather Stacked 4 1/-
Chain/ringmail Stacked 4 1/-
Chain/ringmail/ plate Stacked 5 2/-
The standard of the armour physrep may have a bearing upon its effectiveness.