Barding

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Name	Barding
Size to wear	Special
Armour Class	4
Encumbrance rating	6
Maximum Enchantment	+4
Grants	nothing
Time to Wear	5

Armour made for the scaly midsections of nagas and palentongas.

A barding is a special type of armour designed to cover the lower half of nagas and palentongas. It fills the feet slot in place of boots, which nagas and palentongas cannot wear. It offers significantly more AC than ordinary boots, and their AC bonus is not penalized by the wearer's innate Deformed mutation. Like body armour, bardings impact the wearer's EV slightly (-2 EV; the penalty cannot be reduced by high Armour skill), but unlike regular encumbrance, it does not affect spellcasting, stealth, or melee speed.

Bardings can be maximally enchanted to +4 using scrolls of enchant armour.

Bardings can carry the following egos:

• Fire resistance
• Cold resistance
• Flight
• Stealth

History

• In 0.30, artefact bardings will sometimes spawn with see invisible or rampaging egos.
• With the removal of centaurs in 0.26, all bardings were folded into one type of item wearable by both nagas and the new palentonga species.

	Image
Mundane
Magical	or
Artifact
	Unrandart barding
Black Knight's barding
Lightning scales