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I tend to disagree with the full body harness. I’ll just say Caveat emptor, but full body harnesses are horrible for class 5 climbing. Unless we’re talking about a 3 year old, full body harnesses are so restrictive, and they pull a person away from the wall, they’re a good way to force a kid to lose interest in climbing before they actually have any.My pick is the Mammut Ophir Kids. My daughter started with a model or two before this one, but it’s a harness I wouldn’t hesitate to use as an adult. They need to be large enough that it safely fits, but it’s a real harness with gear loops and all the bells and whistles, and isn’t going to restrict their movement. My second pick which to my knowledge was the first proper kids harness is the Black Diamond Wiz Kid. My brother got one of these back in the late 90’s and it was a game changer compared to any small harness of the day. I wouldn’t hesitate to use either one of these for kids who fit them properly.I completely understand the concerns about safety and in very small children who cannot safely fit a waist harness, by all means full body. Otherwise, they really restrict movement and kids who are the slightest bit interested in progressing in climbing need to get in a non-restrictive harness ASAP.

Our family spends most of our time in Ohio while spending part of the summer and most of the winter in California.A few years back we returned to Ohio after a nice winter in SoCal. The first time my wife went to driver her BMW X5 it started throwing codes, running on half engine, and generally running poorly.The nearest BMW dealership is an hour away so I limped the car to a local guy I know and trust just to get an idea of what was wrong. He calls me within an hour and says I have an insurance claim. Vermin has eaten the engine harness over the winter.I called Jake at State Farm to file my claim. I’ve had State Farm for years and filed multiple body and paint claims. Their State Farm ‘certified’ body and paint shops usually do good work.The agent explained that they would send my BMW to the local body shop. I explained that this was an electrical problem on a pretty sophisticated car. A rural body shop does not have the software needed to program the vehicle. She tried to continue that they were only certified shop in the area.It took me an hour on the phone to run through the full hassle of explaining and re-explaining that this job had to be completed by a certified BMW shop.State Farm finally relented. They had a flatbed at my local guy’s shop within an hour. I run $0 deductible on my comprehensive coverage so State Farm paid my local guy for the half hour diagnostic, the flatbed to the dealership, and the full repair. They didn’t want to but they did.Moral of the story: I put mouse poison in all of my vehicle’s engine bays while they are in storage.

Because going all the way back to Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, D&D doesn’t actually understand arms and armor all that well.They’ve gotten better about weapons, mostly, but still don’t get armor. Here’s the current list in D&D 5E.Padded armor really existed. We mostly called it gambeson. It’s just as described in the book, a quilted or padded jacket.It’s surprisingly (if you’re not familiar with swords) effective all on its own. And at least in Europe formed the base for almost all other forms of armor. That is, under your mail or plate you would wear a gambeson or arming doublet.Honestly, it makes no goddamn sense in the world that gambeson would give disadvantage on stealth. Especially when leather doesn’t. I’ve worked with both materials, and leather is objectively louder than cloth. It squeaks and creaks in ways cloth does not.Way back when, I wrote this answer, Murphy Barrett's answer to Was the studded leather armour used in D&D ever used in real historical combat situations? If so, was it useful? in which I describe how “studded leather” isn’t a thing that existed and was a misunderstanding of brigandine. The relevant point here is that in the comments Ed Han asked me how I’d rate it against RAW armors, which led to this.Gambeson: quilted or padded armor. Forms the base of other armor types.Leather or Hide: Boiled leather or thick rawhide worn as plates or lamellar.Hauberk: A classic chain shirt, possibly protecting the upper legs and armsScale or Lamellar: Formed of small metal plates either on a backing or sewn together.Cuirass or Brigandine: Torso protection composed of steel plates, either large or small plates sewn to a cloth or leather fronting.Partial Plate: A cuirass or brigandine with greaves and bracers. Commonly seen on Greek hopites.Mail: Classic full body protection with mail.Brigandine and splint: Brigandine or cuirass with full arm and leg protection. Maybe splint or plate.Plate: A classic, full up plate harness like that found in the 14th century and later.Just to explain my thinking, all metal armor is noisy. Since a hauberk and cuirass just cover the torso, they don’t move all that much, so I’d be willing to write off what little noise that produces, and even if the hauberk were to cover the arms I don’t feel like getting that granular.Light armor here is all non-metallic armor. It’s just not as protective as metal. Medium is metal armor that provides partial coverage of the body. Heavy provides total coverage.So, with all that in mind, as a DM I would simply overrule the rules as written and say Padded does not give disadvantage on stealth. Frankly I’d go with my version I’ve just outlined.As a player, if I could not convince the DM to houserule it, I’d certainly would not pick padded over leather, because saving two pounds is not worth the disadvantage on Stealth.A final thought, were I the DM, I would make gambeson explicitly the underlayer of every other armor. If you have armor, you have gambeson. So you’re wearing plate harness, but need to be sneaky, you can take the metal off and still have some degree of protection. Further, while all armors would be listed for “as new” price, if you already had gambeson you could “upgrade” to something else by paying the difference in price between padded and whatever.Original question-In D&D 5e, why would anyone use Padded Armour? It has the same AC as Leather Armour but provides disadvantage to Stealth checks.