Armor table

This table summarizes the AV and DV bonuses of various body armor items. The lower left of this table represents Qud's heaviest armors while the upper right represents the lightest, most evasion-oriented armors.

This is not currently an exhaustive listing; for each AV/DV combination, only the most common example is listed.

AV	DV = – AV	DV = 1 – AV	DV = 2 – AV	DV = 3 – AV	DV = 4 – AV	DV = 5 – AV	DV = 6 – AV
Body
0		cloth robe	slate frock
1		leather apron	woven tunic	elastyne
2		furs/Bark	leather			flexivest
3	plastifer	studded	chain mail	puma chitin
4	steel	flake					nanoweave
5	carbide					Plastic armor(favilink error!)*
6	fullerite			crysteel
7					flawless
8							zetachrome
AV	DV = -AV – 2	DV = -AV – 1	DV = – AV	DV = 1 – AV	DV = 2 – AV	DV = 3 – AV	DV = 4 – AV
Head
0			headlamp	wide-brimmed
1			teleprojector	leather	elastyne
2		steel		chain coif
3		fullerite			crysteel
4						flawless	zetachrome
Hands
0					elastyne†	elastyne†
1				leather	plastifer
2		chain/steel		quartzfur
3	carbide		fullerite	crysteel
4					flawless		zetachrome
Feet
0			sandals	yeshyrskin	elastyne
1			step sowers	leather	plastifer
2		chain/steel
3	carbide	fullerite		crysteel
4					flawless		zetachrome
Back
0	powered	quilted	bodypack	leather	chrome
1			quartzfur	ironweave	kaleidocera
Arm
0			bracelet	???	snakeskin
1				bracer
Face
0			goggles	sun veil	???	???
1				gentling
Floating
0			glowsphere	lens
1					mote	rings‡
Roots
3						clay pot
Shield
1			wooden§
2		iron§		steel§
3				steel		Stopsvalinn§
4				carbide
5				fullerite
6							???

* Not obtainable by normal means.
† This item boosts agility by 1, giving an effective +½ DV.
‡ This item takes up additional slots as noted in its article.
§ This item is a buckler and can be worn on an arm or a hand.