Item: Reactive Mail
Often heavily battle scared from use, this chain mail is commonly issued to frontline soldiers who are tasked with battling through enemies to reach high-value targets across the battlefield.
Activate–Quick Spike R (manipulate, metal)
Frequency once per hour
Trigger A creature within 15 feet uses a manipulate action
Effect An iron spike launches from your armor at the target, dealing 2d8 piercing damage to the target (DC 20 Basic Reflex save). If the target critically fails, the triggering action is disrupted.
Trait Effects
Flexible: The armor is pliable and doesn’t hinder most actions. You don’t apply its check penalty to Acrobatics or Athletics checks.
Invested: A character can invest only 10 magical items that have the invested trait. None of the magical effects of the item apply if the character hasn’t invested it, nor can it be activated, though the character still gains any normal benefits from wearing the physical item (like a hat keeping rain off their head).
Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.
Noisy: This armor is loud and likely to alert others to your presence. The armor’s check penalty applies to Stealth checks even if you have the required Strength modifier.
Armor Specialisation Effects
The overlapping rings of chain are designed to deflect piercing attacks and reduce the impact of crushing blows.
Medium Armor: When you take damage from a critical hit, reduce the extra damage by 4 + the value of the armor's potency rune. This is the damage beyond the base damage, as determined on a success.
Related Items
| Name | Level | Rarity | AC Bonus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parachute Mail | 5 | Common | 4 |
| Message Mail | 8 | Common | 4 |
| Mitigation Mail | 9 | Uncommon | 4 |
| Reactive Mail (Greater) | 11 | Common | 4 |
| Mitigation Mail (Greater) | 13 | Uncommon | 4 |
| Thunder Mail | 15 | Common | 4 |
| Mitigation Mail (Major) | 17 | Uncommon | 4 |
| Reactive Mail (Major) | 17 | Common | 4 |
| Leopard's Armor | 9 | Uncommon | 4 |
| Chain Mail | - | Common | 4 |
| Holy Chain | 13 | Common | 4 |
| Moonlit Chain | 7 | Common | 2 |
| Ghoul Hide | 6 | Uncommon | 3 |
| Zetogeki Hide Armor | 8 | Uncommon | 3 |
| Onslaught Hide | 9 | Common | 3 |
| Aurochs Hide Armor | 10 | Uncommon | 3 |
| Lattice Armor | - | Common | 4 |
| Mamlambo Scale | 10 | Rare | 3 |
| Tales in Timber | 10 | Common | 3 |
| Warleader's Bulwark | 10 | Common | 4 |