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 armataurs.

A barding is a special type of armour designed to cover the lower half of nagas and armataurs. It fills the feet slot in place of boots, which these species cannot wear. It offers significantly more AC than ordinary boots, and it isn't penalized by the wearer's Deformed mutation.

However, bardings give a flat penalty of -2 EV. This cannot be reduced by strength or Armour skill. This will not penalize spellcasting, stealth, etc.

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

Bardings can carry the following egos:

• Fire resistance
• Cold resistance
• Flight
• Stealth

Artefact bardings can also spawn with these egos:

• See invisible
• Rampaging

History

• Prior to 0.30, artefact bardings couldn't spawn with the 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