h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, while I was at my rapier lesson today, Chris got set off on a rant about the way old editions of D&D refers to "plate mail," and how this evil misnomer has caused him no end of ire over the years. "There's plate, and there's mail! There is no plate mail!" he ranted. I'll have to take his word on that one.
Still, it might be fun to write an article about historical types of armor. I noticed that my D&D 3E PHB doesn't call it plate mail. They call it half plate or full plate, pretty much.
And they don't have ring mail, either, which is something else that, apparently, the old D&D books butchered.
However, I don't think I'll ever forgive the 3E PHB for butchering the picture of the rapier in the equipment section...

That's all very well and good...but what about magic plate mail? That's always the best kind of armour on role playing games.

Anyway, I'm a fellow newbie and I just thought I'd stop by to say hi. Hi!

I venture to say that if plate mail doesn't exist, then neither does magic plate mail. So everybody's stuck with magic plate armor.
Of course, HackMaster is separate in its madness. It has plate mail *and* plate armor...

And hi.