Autzoo.1382
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utcsrgv!utzoo!laura
Fri Feb 12 14:07:34 1982
AD&D and RM??
I am not sure about the AD&D which ihnss!ihuxn!otto plays, but
in the campaigns i have run or played in Magic users (not called mages)
are not allowed to wear ANY ARMOR, including leather armor. The exception
to this is multi-classed non-human characters --such as elven mu-thieves,
or elven fighter-mus (mu = magic user). They can wear armor and cast
magic spells.
Even humans who begin their careers as fighters and later become
magic users can not cast spells in leather armor. (They can carry it with
them, and wear it, but they have to get undressed before they cast spells)
Notice the difference - elven fighter-magic users can wear plate mail and
cast spells, while himan fighters who have given up fighting and taken up
magic cant cast spells in armor.
AD&D rust monsters, (at least all the ones i have seen) dont
touch leather armor. They do, however, eat swords. Magic swords and
Magic Metal Plate attract them. It is quite common to see a party of
fighters turn tail and flee at the sight of RM --(but their fast) leaving
the leather clad thieves and robed mus to kill the monster with spells
(magic missiles), or slinging rocks at them, or shooting darts, or hitting
them with a wooden staff. They are much easier to kill in AD&D than in
rogue -- but they move much faster than a person in plate mail, too.
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