Sleeping In Armor

[Doctor Proctor]

It isn't unfair and it isn't punishing. The problem comes about not because some characters are better in armour than out but because some characters are getting unreasonable benefits without armour. They wanted 20 stat + raises + light armor to be as good as heavy armour, and the result is you can't take people out of their heavy armour or this problem shows up. So don't take them out of their heavy armour or they'll suddenly be less heroic than they are meant to be. Unless they're battleragers. Strip those suckers bare. Rust monster, black pudding, rust monster.

Yeah, okay...except the Wizard with an 18 INT still beat the crap out of my AC. Even with a relatively low stat you can still be pretty far ahead of Heavy Armor user out of his armor. Then, if you want to go even farther then assume everyone has a 10 DEX and the people in light armor will still be 2 to 3 points of AC ahead of the heavy armor guys if you allow light armor guys to sleep in their armor.

Furthermore, I'm not even talking about something like a melee ranger that's trying to match the AC of the Fighter. People in Heavy Armor are almost exclusively frontline PC's. By stripping them of their armor and their only means of defense you destroy their ability to fill their roll. A Wizard, even if he just had cloth and you didn't add his INT to AC, would still be better able to fill his roll because he's supposed to be in the back, protected by the Fighter in heavy armor.