polished breastplate and celts

[Derell Licht]

I'm playing N:R... I recently got polished breastplate after the Lamp battle, but when I tried to put it on my fighter, it told me I am not sufficiently trained to do this.

I found a post from Randomizer, back in 2007, referring to original Nethergate:
"The polished breastplate and all plate mail are only wearable by Romans. This is to provide some game balance since Celts are now allowed to wear up to chain mail."

Is this still true in Resurrection??  Or do I just need to boost his stats in some way?

[Mea Tulpa]

I'm pretty sure Randomizer was talking about N:R, and comparing it to the original, where Celts had more armor restrictions.

[Thaeris]

This is a wee bit of a threadjack, but were the Celts able to wear any sort of armor (aside from torcs and shields) in the original Nethergate? I don't remember them being able to do so at all.

[Randomizer]

Original Nethergate had the Celts in very low level armor. Mostly robes because they could use magic and Jeff was still traditional D&D in mages couldn't wear armor.

 

I remember the remake allowed casting spells in chain mail for both sides. 

[Mea Tulpa]

I don't think that was traditional D&D so much as all the library research Jeff & co. did while creating Nethergate.  If it was just traditional D&D, Celtic warriors would have been able to wear armor.

[Ishad Nha]

In the original game, I think they could use Armor Use skill to reduce encumbrance. Then there was the Defense skill to avoid the need for armor.

 

The NR game has a work-around for Celts:

Armor Use (Roman cost: 1, Celt Cost: 3) - Enables you to wear and get benefit from
bulky armor. The more of this skill you have, the more your armor protects you. Also
keeps your armor from slowing you down and taking your action points in combat.
 

Edited October 29, 2020 by Ishad Nha

[Simulated Knave]

I realize it's been a few months, but Celts couldn't wear armour. Like not even leather. "Young Celtic warriors didn't wear body armour," the game would say. Armour use was for shields, helms, etc.