FitzTheRuke
Legend
But if you are wearing non-heavy armor your tree-stump status comes into play again? It may be the better to just do away with DEX penalties to AC. In this way your tree stump status can better be implied in the mechanics?
Ol' Tree-Stump is gonna get rocked by anything that asks for a Dex Save, armour or not.
And it makes sense that he'd rather be in armour than not if he's crap at getting out of the way...
SURE, it would be a little better smulation-wise if his handicap was somehow reflected in his AC, but it works mechanically for the game this way. He's still terrible at getting out of the way of stuff, but usually his armour saves him. It's not ideal, but it's not really worth worrying about either. (IMO, 'natch)