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Armor Class 4 [banded mail]
Description
An instructive little tale where Victorian scholars look back at five centuries of arms and armor and just start making stuff up, because they're just ever-so-clever.
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/armor-class-4/
Key sources for this episode include Charles Henry Ashdown's "Armour & Weapons in the Middle Ages"; Charles John Ffoulkes's "The Armorer and His Craft from the XIth to the XVI Century"; John Hewitt's "Ancient Armor and Weapons in Europe, from the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Seventeenth Century"; the "Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook" for first, second, third, fourth, and fifth editions; and contemporary issues of Dragon Magazine.
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