Barding, Medium-Size Creature and Large Creature

Barding is simply some type of armor covering the head, neck, chess, body, and possibly legs of a horse. Heavier types provide better protection at the expense of lower speed. Barding comes in most of the types found on Armor . As with any nonhumanoid large creature, a horse's armor costs four times what a human's (a humanoid Medium-size creature's) armor costs and also weighs twice as much as the armor found on Armor (see Armor for Unusual Creatures). (If the barding is for a pony, which is Medium- size, the cost is only double, and the weighs is the same.)