Taking armor off or putting it on in game?

[FrankManic]

I was wondering about this. Let's say bob the Fighter has two sets of armor. One is just a breast and backplate with some simple pauldrons, bracers, and greaves. Bob wears this when he's knocking around because it looks nice, it keeps his insides inside, and most importantly it breathes well and doesn't slow him down when he's chasing through the woods after nefarious ne'ers do well. Later in the afternoon Bob hears that a huge army of brigands is going to invade, so he switches out to his heavy suit, which features a heavier breast and backplate with tassets, full arm defenses including articulated elbow cops, full leg defenses, gauntlets, a gorget and a sallet helm.

Do the game mechanics allow for this sort of thing, or can you only have one suit of armor active in a given event?

 

[Bleyk]

I was wondering about this. Let's say bob the Fighter has two sets of armor. One is just a breast and backplate with some simple pauldrons, bracers, and greaves. Bob wears this when he's knocking around because it looks nice, it keeps his insides inside, and most importantly it breathes well and doesn't slow him down when he's chasing through the woods after nefarious ne'ers do well. Later in the afternoon Bob hears that a huge army of brigands is going to invade, so he switches out to his heavy suit, which features a heavier breast and backplate with tassets, full arm defenses including articulated elbow cops, full leg defenses, gauntlets, a gorget and a sallet helm.

Do the game mechanics allow for this sort of thing, or can you only have one suit of armor active in a given event?

Just have both suits evaluated and use the proper set of tags when figuring damage. It's no different really from going from armor to no armor.

 

[Lugo]

Its actually a fairly commonplace practice. If you don't NEED to wear 30lbs of steel all the time, don't. Save it for when the extra armor is useful.

 

[Telokh_Amdo]

Just remember to keep the armor tags with the appropriate suit. If you are wearing one and carrying both tags, then both can be stolen if your character should be taken down.

 

[FrankManic]

Thanks for the responses.