More of my RPG musings that are probably mostly for Shadow:
What would you call armor that is mostly either padded cloth or leather with plates of metal riveted into it as an outer layer? Not studded leather (that's mainly leather with smaller metal studs, hence the name), and not really splint mail (those tend to be metal strips rather than molded plates), and definitely not plate mail (which is generally overlapping metal plates entirely).
I'm thinking along the lines of the Stalhrim armor in Skyrim, except instead of ice plates, think some kind of metal (either actual metallic in appearance or painted/lacquered to have a color a la historical armors):
I guess you have the "real" answer, which is breastplate plus stuff. Then you have the "just roll with whatever armor and reflavor it" which is what 99% of people do if they want special armor. ---
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