Seth S that's a chameleon prize for you, for everyone else here's some post-apoc armour stuff that I had kicking around for a now dismantled project. Anyway so you have your armour categories which do what ever armour does in your setting. You need a minimum of X pieces of armour to qualify for that category.
Armour categories Light 2 pieces
Medium 4 pieces must include chest armour
Heavy 6 pieces must include chest armour and either a helmet or greaves and gauntlets
Very Heavy : Must have 2 relics/high magic/ power armour etc
Items with a + beside them count as 2 pieces. Items with a - break if an attack roll rolls exactly what it needs to hit you. Do I need to say that you can only effectively wear one piece of each type?
Helmets
milk crate -bike helmet -
motorbike helmet +
fencing helmet
Colander-
Pot -
Big soup pot with eye holes
Hockey mask
Pitchers mask
Kendo Mask +
Army Helmet (metal) +
Pith Helmet
Safety Hat
Welding Mask -
Riot Helmet +
Mascot head -
LArge animal skull -
CHEST:
Leather jacket (fashionable. At some point anyway)
Motorcycle leather jacket +
Boiled leather Cuirass +
Phone books taped together to make vest +
Bullet Proof vest +
Chain links (from bed)
actually Chain mail +
Downhill Mountain bike chest guard +
Horse riding vest
Football armour
Pot lids tied to chest and back +
Sides of shopping trolley attached to front and back+
Woven inner tubes +
Breast guard
Backs of office chairs taped together
LEGS
Mud guard from motor cycle
Shinguard (hockey or soccer) -
Motor cycle boots
Riding Boots
Steel capped boots
Safety shoes (steel capped)
Gumboots (steel capped)
groin guard (sports)
Metal cod piece
Bike chain kilt
Plate skirt
Street sign loincloth/tabard
Knee pads (sports) -
Knee pads, doll heads
Soft-toys packed with sand taped to legs -
Section of tire
HANDS , ARMS
magazines taped to forearms -
Spiked Leather greaves
Motor cycle long gloves
MMA gloves
Skateboard wrist protectors
Padded bikechain wrapped around forearms
P.V.C pipe
Drain Hosing-
Elbow pads (sports) -
Elbow pads (doll faces)
Plate Gauntlet +
Chain gloves (butchers)
Thick leather gloves
gardening gloves -
Greeves made from shopping trolley
Section of tire (car or motorcycle)
SHOULDER
Goat/Horse/Cow Skull
Metal eagle
Football shoulder pads
Motorcycle tire, section
Mudguard
Teddy Bear packet with sand or polyfill
Small shopping basket
Milk Crate
Cooking Pot


