Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26149161-20160321154543/@comment-26298013-20160327184955

High King Ithilion wrote: EliSuperHero wrote: High King Ithilion wrote: But what about everyone else wearing chain instead of plate? Snip But no one has invented plate! No one! Not even the dwarves! There is no plate armor! And anyway, I don't mean everyone wears vanilla chain, I just mean that all the current armor be retextured to be chainmail.

The Dwarves of the First Age almost certainly had plate armor backed with a VERY fire-resistant material. It is stated that the Dwarves of Belegost and Nogrod (Maybe only one of the two, I think it was Belegost but I don't remember) could resist the flames of Glaurung, Father of Dragons.

Chainmail, which must be backed with a cloth-like layer of padding to prevent links from being embedded in the skin after a hit, cannot stop flames, and turns a Dwarf warrior into a flaming Dwarf wearing a very hot suit of rapidly fusing metal pieces wondering A. Why he showed up to this massacre and B. Why he wore flammable materials into a war where the other guy has dragons. Oh, and Balrogs. Don't forget those things.

Plate armor, however, backed with mail and that padding layer, combined with the Dwarves' incredible resistance to all forms of physical hardship, could yield a more realistic means of becoming, not very crisp dragon-snacks, but instead very angry, very hot Dwarf warriors with axes. Lots of axes.