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armor so historically dubious it exists mostly in Dungeons & Dragons, not museums.
D&D fixtureListed in nearly every edition's armor table
Historical mythVictorian scholars invented it from misread illustrations
No survivorsNo genuine examples exist in any collection
Name originMisinterpreted overlapping plates on old armor sketches
Gygax legacyGame preserved a debunked 19th-century blunder