Troll leather armour

Name	Troll Leather Armour
Size to wear	all
Armour Class	4
Encumbrance rating	-4
Maximum Enchantment	+4
Grants	regeneration
Time to Wear	5

A magical armour, made from the stiff and knobbly skin of a common troll. It magically regenerates its wearer's flesh at a fairly slow rate (unless already a troll).

Troll leather armour is one of the lightest armours in the game, providing slightly more defense than leather armour with no additional encumbrance rating. It also provides a +30 bonus to the wearer's regeneration rate, though your hunger rate is increased to 1.5× normal for as long as you are not at max HP. This regeneration bonus does not apply to troll or deep dwarf characters, but does affect mummies.

This armour is rare, but you can create your own by using a scroll of enchant armour on a troll hide (which is sometimes produced when you butcher a troll corpse). If the hunger increase doesn't sound worth it to you, you can get better defense with no additional EV penalty by using mottled dragon armour.

Note that despite its similarity in name to the less universally wearable leather armour, troll leather armour (and its associated hide) can be worn by any character that can wear body armour, not just small and medium species.

Desirability

Middling. While troll leather armour is better than comparable mundane armours, its protection is inferior to all of the dragon armours, and its regeneration boost is fairly moderate at 25% less than that of a ring of regeneration. Still, this can be a good item, particularly for characters who have no other way to speed up their healing.

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