Post/Author/DateTime	Post
bonelock 04-20-06, 09:04 PM	Is there any type of armor you can't put amor spikes on? I don't see how they would fit on/attach to chainmail?
Kobogen 04-20-06, 09:38 PM	Not true. Look at some books that talk about armor and you can find many types of chainmail. I dont think I have seen any chainmail in a D&D book that talkes about spiked chainmail but I have seen it. I have a book at home that talks about the spartans using spiked chainmail. Its just forged so that the links are spiked facing out.
draconic_swine 04-21-06, 12:19 AM	Nothing in the rules mentions what type of armour you can or cannot put armour spikes on, so anything goes. Feel free to limit it as you see fit, but I wouldn't suggest it. No point in limiting characters in such a way, unless you really can't stand the idea of armour spikes being put on a certain armour type.
WhiteHarness 04-21-06, 07:19 AM	Kobogen, I want you to provide documentation about the Spartans wearing spiked mail. I have whole shelves of books on armour, and none of them mention Spartans even wearing mail. They seem to have preferred bronze plate and scale-reinforced linen armour. Unless we're talking about medieval-era Spartans. Documentation please. Just saying "I have a book at home..." doesn't make it true.
tarkin 04-21-06, 10:50 AM	If you have purchased a couple of WoTC books, just look through them. You will see MANY pictures of people wearing chain mail that have spikes on them. Usually they appear to be "add-ons" that were strapped to the armor. Things like shoulder patches with straps coming out are particularly common. Obviously, such an idea would have some problems you could not just strap on anything. Instead it would need to be carefully customized for your armor.
DM_Greatness 04-21-06, 01:00 PM	Or, you could just think of it as 'Barbed' chain mail.
Tony Vargas 04-21-06, 01:32 PM	The rules say nothing about what types of armor can be 'spiked.' Personally, I don't think it makes much sense for any light armor other than studded (the spikes serving as the studs), or any medium besides breastplate and scale. But, the rules are OK with it, and realism isn't exactly a high priority when you're talking armor spikes (which are pretty darned unrealistic, themselves). Heck, you could even have armor spikes w/o armor - if you can picture 'add ons' like tarkin mentioned for chainmail, you could probably picture them with no armor at all (see PH illo of Hennet).
RaspK FOG 04-21-06, 05:06 PM	Mail was worn either on its own or with other protective gear (read armour) covering areas that the mail did not, be they a helm (sometimes over a mail coif), a gorget, or what not. Note that "spiked" armour was more of an intimidation/defence issue, and that you cannot have "barbed/spiked" mail. Also, note that the plates used along with mail armour were never, as far as I have seen and studied, spiked, since such measures would not be very effective.
dengarbountyhunter 04-22-06, 04:16 PM	and there's the question of the spiked leather armor; does it become studded leather armor, or is there far less spikes on a spiked leather armor than there are studs on a studded leather armor? why not make armor spikes simply "body spikes", so that they are worn ON the armor and not PART OF the armor? would make everything simpler... but would raise questions on sundering and disarming...
Kursk 04-22-06, 09:36 PM	I allow unarmoured characters to be spiked. Little gorilla glue and your done. Makes as much sense as spiked armour. Probably why it was so common in real life back in the middle ages.... :P