If you allow a Shirt of Armor, have it be just like a Bracers of Armor. A Shirt +3 and Bracers +2 would only give a +3, not +5, because thay are the same enchantment. Would this would do is allow more flexiblity in selecting magic items. Having a Shirt of Armor allows a caster or monk to have...
If you give an armor bonus to a shirt then for all intents and purposes it would be just like a Bracer of Armor. A character could not wear both a Bracer of Armor and a Shirt of Armor because only the highest bonus would be in effect. They would not stack. What it would do is allow characters...
The point is that it was not a 'fun imbalance', but a frustrating experience for the players the rolled poorer characters. The characters with the higher could do herioc feats but the lower stat characters had a hard time just surviving and ended up staying in the back of the party so they would...
In the campaign I am currently playing in there are 7 players.
We created our characters by rolling 4d6, drop the lowest. We were allowed to roll 3 sets and pick the best set. After we had all made 5th level the DM asked us what our point totals would be if our characters had been built with a...