Masterwork Plate Gauntlets

Armor Profile

Class

Heavy

AC

+3

Grade

IV · Masterwork

Rarity

Epic

Tier

II · Industrial

Training

Heavy Armor

Cost

8120

Weight

10 lb

Without training in heavy armor, you have disadvantage on every attack, check and save that uses Strength or Dexterity, your speed drops by 10 feet, and you cannot channel while it is on. Proficiency

To make: 4,060 gm of materials and 50 days of work, at a workshop with the right tools, by a crafter with Rift Affinity 4, finished with a DC 20 check. To repair: 1,015 gm and 13 days. Downtime

Properties

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• armorWorn protection. Sets or contributes to your armor class.
• armor-pieceA piece rather than a suit. It changes no armor class on its own; a matched set of head, arms, hands, waist, legs and feet grants +1.
• heavyUnwieldy for a Small creature, which attacks with it at disadvantage.

Gauntlets of shaped steel plate, articulated at every finger joint and fitted to one pair of hands. It grants a +3 bonus to Armor Class beyond the ordinary pattern. Proofed with the weapon it is meant to stop, then reworked wherever it dented.

Rules

• Always on

  • +3 AC

• Unlike the ordinary piece, this one grants +3 to Armor Class on its own. Completing its set grants the set's own +1 on top of that.

Grades

The same object, worked to a better standard. The grade is the rung; the bonus is what the rung is worth at the table.

1. Grade I · Standard
2. Grade II · Refined +1
3. Grade III · Pristine +2
4. Grade IV · Masterwork +3