Quote Originally Posted by Beni-Kujaku View Post
Well, platinum is not fit for an armor at all. It's almost as malleable as gold. A platinum armor would not protect as well as a steel one, so it's most probably just a plating of platinum on your full plate (and no, you can't eat on it like on a plate, and it would not please your palate. I love english.).
Actually, the book mentions the platinum has to be magically treated to make it as sturdy as steel, so it very well might be pure platinum.

And that just begs the question of why one would bother making armor out of the stuff. You get two points of cold and sonic resistance, but the trade-off is an inversion of mithril's benefits.

But being worse than useless doesn't make something dysfunctional, so I digress.