Connorsrpg
Adventurer
I think I have just stumbled upon a hangover from a previous playtest…or something.
It says dwarves are not penalised for wearing heavy armor. Heavy armor has a Str rating; if you are under that it reduces your speed by 10.
This is of little to no benefit. Most dwarves wearing hvy armor are likely to meet the STR req anyway.
But even worse, heavy armor weighs a lot and is likely to put you over the Enc limit (esp if using the Variant rules, as we are). I am cool with that, but this still affects dwarves. So, in reality, the armor DOES slow them down anyway. Given their penalty to speed to start, this would make most armored dwarves mv at 15ft speed!
This does not affect overland mvt, but still, seems odd. (I am all for heavy armor reducing mvt rate through Enc, but when a race has an ability that is meant to remove this penalty, but technically doesn't; that seems wrong).
So, for now I simply said dwarves can times their STR score by 10 (instead of 5) for Encumbrance purposes.
Another option I considered was simply, the weight or armors worn does not count? But this seems odd, when clothes do (for everyone)?
How do you like my compromise?
It says dwarves are not penalised for wearing heavy armor. Heavy armor has a Str rating; if you are under that it reduces your speed by 10.
This is of little to no benefit. Most dwarves wearing hvy armor are likely to meet the STR req anyway.
But even worse, heavy armor weighs a lot and is likely to put you over the Enc limit (esp if using the Variant rules, as we are). I am cool with that, but this still affects dwarves. So, in reality, the armor DOES slow them down anyway. Given their penalty to speed to start, this would make most armored dwarves mv at 15ft speed!
This does not affect overland mvt, but still, seems odd. (I am all for heavy armor reducing mvt rate through Enc, but when a race has an ability that is meant to remove this penalty, but technically doesn't; that seems wrong).
So, for now I simply said dwarves can times their STR score by 10 (instead of 5) for Encumbrance purposes.
Another option I considered was simply, the weight or armors worn does not count? But this seems odd, when clothes do (for everyone)?
How do you like my compromise?