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Sometimes worn with a gorget. Gorget: Steel collar to protect the neck and cover the neck opening in a complete cuirass. Quite unlike a modern shirt collar in that as well as covering the front and back of the neck it also covers part of the clavicles and sternum and a like area on the back. Standard, pixane, or bishop's mantle: A mail or ...
The d20 system, 3rd edition version of the Arms and Equipment Guide was printed in 2003 and was designed by Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, Jeff Quick, and James Wyatt.Cover art was by Eric Peterson, with interior art by Dennis Cramer, David Day, David Martin, Scott Roller, and Sam Wood.
The gorget served as an anchor point for the pauldrons, which either had holes in them to engage pins projecting from the gorget, or straps which could be buckled to the gorget. The neck was protected by a high collar of articulated lames , and the entire gorget was divided into front and back pieces which were hinged at the side so that the ...
One piece of armour which continued to be worn was the gorget, although its size was rapidly decreasing. It was not intended to offer protection, but rather to display the high rank of its wearer. In Poland, some gorgets had applications bearing scenes of Christian iconography, like Virgin Mary or saints. They "functioned symbolically as a ...
It was usually a single piece of plate armour protecting the chin and throat and filling the gap between the helmet and breastplate. [1] The bevor could also extend over the knight’s left shoulder doubling the thickness of the armour. [3] The bevor was originally worn in conjunction with a type of helmet known as a sallet. [4]
Gorget patches (collar tabs, collar patches) are an insignia in the form of paired patches of cloth or metal on the collar of a uniform , used in the military and civil service in some countries. Collar tabs sign the military rank (group of ranks), the rank of civil service , the military unit , the office (department) or the branch of the ...
The Dungeon Geomorphs are sets of aids that consist of dungeon map sections. These sections can be cut apart and assembled together in various formations. Set One was for typical dungeon corridors and rooms; Set Two was for unusual dungeon corridors and rooms; and Set Three was for larger, even more unusual dungeons, corridors and rooms.
Originally the gorget patches of units from other arms and corps assigned to the division were overlaid on the gorget patch of the two regiments of a brigade or division. However, as after World War II infantry regiments with different gorget patches made up the army's divisions this practice was abandoned.