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   CrustyB (crustyb@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 23:26:33 JST CrustyB

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   Another D&D fallacy is "chainmail." It was called chain, not chainmail.
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     Special Guest Star (s2208@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 23:26:33 JST Special Guest Star

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     maille is a word that means armor
     
     you can call it chain or call it maille, but chainmail is not a thing
     
     it's a wargame from 1971
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     VikingWays (vikingways@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 23:26:34 JST VikingWays

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     @epictittus I think the issue most of us have is the show Vikings (among a host of others) make them look like fucking bikers which is absurd, but you noted this above. It really isn't that hard to make Norse equipment look good on camera, but yet they grab shit that looks like 80s Mad Max for some odd reason that I can't figure out.
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     Semilexic (epictittus@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 23:26:34 JST Semilexic

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     @VikingWays In the 1950s greasers wore leather, because they rode bikes and cars without doors, and you dont lose all your skin if you have a leather jacket. Also leather looked cool.
     
     Later D&D introduced studded leather because they misunderstood briandines and training armor (which is leather).
     
     The hollywood trope is a combination of that.
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     Semilexic (epictittus@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 23:26:35 JST Semilexic
     Fun fact: Hardened leather was a component of armor used by vikings, slavs, mongols and later byzantines, and later their varangian mercenaries, and later German empire (pickelhaubes). But it was never a complete set of armor, the hardened leather was usually used as a structural element to something else. Usually steel plates.
     
     Picrel, horses ass armor - For example if you put a sheet of leather on a horse, and let it get wet in the rain, and let it dry.... it will become very hard. You can seal it against future moisture with a glue or oil and it will be moulded armor for that horse, resistant to impact. Or a brace so it can carry more.