Physical Armour Class

Physical Armour Class (PAC) is armour that protects from physical attacks. Certain races, notably Trolls, have evolved tough hides or bony plate coverings that innately grant PAC as a natural protection, but PAC is usually dependent on the type of armour that you wear.

Advantages of PAC: As long as you are wearing the armour it will apply to blows made by a weapon with a physical component. You don’t even need to be conscious to benefit from it.

Disadvantages of PAC: It offers no protection against Spells or Miracles or supernatural weapons that do not have a physical component, such as a purely magical sword or a purely spiritual Mace. It only applies to the location where armour is actually physically worn. However a concession is made in that any armour up to AC 3, unless it is master crafted armour, does not require a Phys Rep.

A new ordinary suit of armour wears out and becomes totally irreparable after 5 adventures regardless of the length of the adventures. Master crafted armour has 10 such uses before wearing out, but it should be noted that if a master crafted phys rep is not worn the armour suffers two uses per adventure and the +2 PAC bonus for master crafted may not be claimed. Armour cannot have uses restored by Mend, Reform or Reshape spells et cetera. For details on the cost of armour see types of armour.

It is also possible to acquire bonus or temporary AC from items, potions, spells and guilds. What types of armour class, and whether it stacks with the characters own armour is specified in the ability.

For Example: 

''Rudolf the Blue Wizard is wearing AC 2 all over (leather armour without a phys-rep). If he casts a Plate Spell, for 5 minutes he is in AC 5 all over, as they do not stack.''

''Eric the Warrior is wearing chain mail on his chest and abdomen for AC 6, and AC 3 elsewhere. He has a "Bless" miracle cast on him, which gives him 2 DAC, and has an Artefact that gives him another 2 DAC. Since he only has Max AC 9, he battle boards AC 9 to chest and abdomen, AC 7 elsewhere.''