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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7133712" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>I think part of the issue with swimming is that in general it's approached as a "Save or Die" roll which 5E (in theory) tries to get away from.</p><p></p><p>Or with several DMs it's been "If you are wearing armor don't bother rolling because you just die".</p><p></p><p>Which is really exciting for the guy wearing armor. Either you take a significant penalty to effectiveness compared to every other build when it comes to ship-based adventures or when you're close to anything deeper than a mud puddle because you took off your armor or you risk death around every corner. While the naked barbarian is somehow deflecting every sword blow with their pecs.</p><p></p><p>Maybe I'm just bitter, but I've had DMs who seemingly <em>hated</em> characters that wore armor. Like the time the DM had the bad guy do a command word "jump" and then insisted that my character move 10 feet and jump over the edge of the ship into the ocean.</p><p></p><p>If the barbarian can shrug off getting hit in the face with an ogre's spiked club and suffer no damage because he's just that tough (and added his con bonus to AC), then my guy in armor can swim as well as anyone else that hasn't stripped down. Because D&D does not have to be realistic, and save or die sucks.</p><p></p><p>That's my story and I'm sticking to it. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7133712, member: 6801845"] I think part of the issue with swimming is that in general it's approached as a "Save or Die" roll which 5E (in theory) tries to get away from. Or with several DMs it's been "If you are wearing armor don't bother rolling because you just die". Which is really exciting for the guy wearing armor. Either you take a significant penalty to effectiveness compared to every other build when it comes to ship-based adventures or when you're close to anything deeper than a mud puddle because you took off your armor or you risk death around every corner. While the naked barbarian is somehow deflecting every sword blow with their pecs. Maybe I'm just bitter, but I've had DMs who seemingly [I]hated[/I] characters that wore armor. Like the time the DM had the bad guy do a command word "jump" and then insisted that my character move 10 feet and jump over the edge of the ship into the ocean. If the barbarian can shrug off getting hit in the face with an ogre's spiked club and suffer no damage because he's just that tough (and added his con bonus to AC), then my guy in armor can swim as well as anyone else that hasn't stripped down. Because D&D does not have to be realistic, and save or die sucks. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :hmm: [/QUOTE]
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