Rune armor has played a role in our games since around 1995, when the first suits began appearing in the coughers of monte-haul style campaigns. Since this first appearance, a more structured set of rules pertaining to rune armor creation has been established.

      While rune weapons are considered extremely rare, rune armor is far more rare than those. During the Elf-Dwarf wars about a half dozen varieties were produced between the two mystical superpowers, but few of those survived the post-war purges of dangerous magical constructs from their arsenals. The most known of these is the Dragon Slayer variety of rune armor, found among the pages of Dragons & Gods produced by Palladium Books. Today only three known rune smiths are known to still have the capability to produce rune armor, one is Thoth, another is the Dragon Goddess Kiraboshi, and the other is an obscure Asguardian dwarf that went into seclusion eons ago, and his whereabouts are known only to a handful of individuals in the megaverse. The Splugorth would do anything to gain the ability to produce rune armor. Splynnkryth has tried on many occasions to get Thoth to teach him the ability, but thus far Thoth has politely fenced away from the issue. All of their other attempts to rediscover the technique behind rune armor creation has proven equally fruitless.

      The few suits of rune armor that have been created are equally divided by category, similarly to rune weapons, as Lesser, Greater, and Greatest rune armor types. They are fashioned out of stone or metal, encountered in all different shades of colors, from blues and reds, to whites and blacks. They are almost always magically weightless, and of fair to good mobility. While they can be damaged and even seemingly destroyed, they will magically reconstruct themselves through regeneration, or will reappear from complete destruction within 24 hours.