Fucking hell shad I just finished listening to your book and tbh I'm not much of a reader or book man but that was amazing and a for someone's first publication I'm very impressed that book damn near brought tears to my eyes at several points, I freaking loved it I look forward to seeing anything you plan on making with this universe. And p.s I just might buy the physical copy cause of how awesome it was.i am disappointed with one thing the book was great and all BUT WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS!!!!!!

Pov:

The neighbors: "Honey, he's at it again, this time he's wearing studded leather." "No, that's not studded leather, it's Brigandine, we gotta move now, he's now fully prepared for war!"

"do glasses break immersion?"

I love how they literally started marketing it as the "Shadiversity Brigandine" over at their site xD Shad is a model now guys.

Historical

Alternative title: time travelling mercenary praises armour in front of his castle.

"does it break the immersion?"

I love how shad's hand just constantly drifts back to his sword handle. It's just natural for him.

Shad looks ridiculously good in that Brigandine. He be making those damsels want to elope. Yet the man has already sworn to another.

Shad: "If you are familiar with my content, you can probably tell that I'm wearing something different than what I usually wear"

All this time I thought the brigandine was "cloth armor". Videos like this are so helpful for us artists!

I appreciate the sentiment of differentiating historically “accurate” vs “plausible”. The simple facts written records are spotty and inconsistent at best.

Wife: Babe, please, not again.

Steel-Mastery: we just want a simple shout-out

Shad, the splint mail in DnD is actually an inside-out version of a brigandine. The description reads, "This armor is made of narrow vertical strips of metal riveted to a backing of leather that is worn over cloth padding." Interchange 'narrow vertical strips' with 'small horizontal plates' and turn it inside out, and it would be a dead-on description of a brigandine.

The common man's plate. With impact absorbitive backing, very hard to defeat. With modern ceramic microplates and high density metals, you can create something that is literally bulletproof like this. Either way, it's great stuff- pretty easy to produce since you can replace plates and assemble from mass produced metal slivers. As compared to Plate, which is sooo much more labor intensive. Plus! It is also weather resistant, so you can actually wear it on a daily basis without ruining it or having spending hours polishing and oiling it.

glasses off: who is this handsome knight of the ancient times

Shad:

In the first 5 minutes you convinced me I want brigandine instead of plate. Faster, more flexible, maybe even slightly lighter. Genius concept. Very similar to modern combat armor which contains multiple ceramic plates to stop bullets.