Armor

Normally, after every battle, a character wearing armor will lose Armor Points after spending 5 minutes resetting their armor. With the purchase of this skill, the character gains three advantages. The first grants the character 25% bonus to their Base Armor Points or Special Armor Points – whichever is appropriate for any armor that they wear. The character should total all of their separate armor pieces then multiply the total by 1.5 (this includes the 25% bonus for the Armor Proficiency skill, if the character only has the Armor Efficiency skill, then multiply by 1.25) and round the number normally to nearest whole number. The second ensures that the character will always have 25% their starting Base Armor Points or Special Armor Points – whichever is appropriate – after resetting their armor. The character must still spend the 5 minutes in-game resetting their armor after a battle to gain this benefit. Third, the amount the armor degrades decreases by 1 point. After all skills, crafting and enchanting bonuses, the minimum Degradation number is 1 point. Torso armor must be worn to use this skill. The character may remove the other parts of their armor: their helmet, greaves, gauntlets, etc. but still has to wear their torso armor. For example, Sir Derrick has a chain mail shirt, studded leather vambraces, and light plate greaves totaling 20 Armor Points. With this skill he gains a bonus of +10 Armor Points totaling 30 Armor Points. After a battle he adjusts his armor and is now at 27 Armor Points. Over the course of the Event his armor is lowered to 6 Armor Points. Once more Sir Derrick gets into a battle, but at the end of this battle when he resets his armor he will have 5 Armor Points, the minimum he can have with this skill. This skill does not augment magical Armor Points from an Armor spell, an alchemical item, magic items, rituals, or similar magical effects. It will increase the Armor Points from a Ritual of Armor Enchantment.