Hoplite Armor (3.5e Equipment)

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A veteran hoplite in full equipment.

Hoplite Armor

Traditionally worn by the citizen soldiers of the Theramore Peninsula, this armor maintains a large amount of mobility while being highly effective infantry protection.

Hoplite Armor (Light)

Size	Humanoid Cost	Nonhumanoid Cost	Armor Bonus	Weight	Hit Points
Small	750 gp	1500 gp	+4	15 lb.	35
Medium	750 gp	1500 gp	+4	30 lb.	35

Non-Standard Sizes
Fine	375 gp	750 gp	+2	3 lb.	35
Diminutive	375 gp	750 gp	+2	3 lb.	35
Tiny	375 gp	750 gp	+2	3 lb.	35
Large	1500 gp	3000 gp	+4	60 lb.	35
Huge	3000 gp	6000 gp	+4	150 lb.	35
Gargantuan	6000 gp	12000 gp	+4	240 lb.	35
Colossal	12000 gp	24000 gp	+4	360 lb.	35

Maximum Dex Bonus	Armor Check Penalty	Arcane Spell Failure	Hardness
+4	-3	25%	8

Speed
Base	20 ft.	30 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.	80 ft.	90 ft.	100 ft.
Armored	20 ft.	30 ft.	40 ft.	50 ft.	60 ft.	70 ft.	80 ft.	90 ft.	100 ft.

Don	Don Hastily	Remove
1 minute	5 rounds	1 minute1
If the character has some help, cut this time in half. A single character doing nothing else can help one or two adjacent characters. Two characters can't help each other don armor at the same time.

The best hoplite armor consists of a lightweight bronze over leather breast-and-back, bracers, reinforced leather tassets and sandals. Other varieties use bronze scales to achieve the same protective effect with similar mobility. More fanciful versions like this one likely belonged to the leaders of a phalanx. The hoplite armor is always masterwork; price and benefits are subsumed in the above statistics.

The hoplite armor grants the following benefits when worn, on top of its general protective capabilities:

• You gain a +2 bonus to all Constitution-based checks, and all nonlethal damage taken by performing physically strenuous activities like marching, hustling or running past the usual limit is reduced by 2 points.
• Against piercing attacks of any kind, the hoplite armor's AC bonus counts as 2 higher.
• You count as having level 1 heat protection or your existing level of heat protection increases by +1 (see Protection against Heat, Sandstorm pg. 14).

Craft (armorsmithing and leatherworking) DC 25. Market Price 750 gp.

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