Talk:Magic Armour/@comment-20355458-20150723190443/@comment-20355458-20150724055615

I think you're overthinking and/or trying to apply too much realism in a world with cow powered airships and absurdities of that ilk.

Whilst Osborne said it is a simplification - I'm wont to simply apply Occam's Razer here.

Mage Robes are enchanted with "forcefields" of varying power depending on quality of enchantment. This forcefield is strong against slow moving weapons such as swords or hammers, and they glance off or even repelled away. On the inverse, high velocity projectiles squeeze between the "particles" of the forcefield and bypass it.

Plate armor is metal and obviously a conductor, which can intensify magical attacks but obviously arrows would just ping off.

Hide and leather and all that absorb magic, why exactly, I struggle a bit more to headcanon here. But maybe you can just say that because the high grade leathers come from dragons and dragons are magical creatures, it can absorb said magic. The weakness to melee, however, is obvious.