Yeah... the whole, "no chainmail till at least lvl 3," thing is a pretty big middle finger to STR characters.
Is chainmail available at level 3 now? I didn't find any at all in my play through. It is something that should definitely be available early though.
There is chainmail available in the goblin village from the halfling(?) merchant. The earliest I've gotten there naturally was level 3. That's what I was referring to.
Technically you could probably get it at Lvl 1 if you hardcore metagame and make a beeline for the village, but you would have to skip a decent amount of content to pull that off.
