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I'd be fine with the "Mearlsified" Rust Monster. Mike Mearls continues to impress me.

If they do nothing else... Get rid of the Rust Monster! Or at least reduce its power a bit. I hope its "Oops! All your stuff is automatically, irretrievably gone!" feature is axed--tossed out along with the "save or die" bathwater. Maybe I wouldn't hate it so much if your stuff at least had...

I've read that in SWSE, certain armours add not only to your Reflex Defense, but also to your Damage Threshold and Fortitude Defense. Which armours are those? What is a "Damage Threshold?" Could someone explain these mechanics in greater depth? SWSE either hasn't hit the shelves here yet, or...

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What does "weaksauce" mean? I kinda liked the attempt at giving the concept a Greek name that one poster tried above: (H)Oplomancer doesn't sound bad...

I can't believe somebody thought "marshal" was a modern word. I'd have thought that people who play a game that features so many details inspired by medieval warfare would occasionally read a book or two on medieval warfare. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Marshal

As long as the spiked chain is out, I'll be happy. Was there ever any consensus reached on what this thing is even supposed to look like?

I would like to see the term "armour class" go the way of "thac0." I do want to hear more about how armour is going to work in 4th Edition. What's this about adding to Fortitude/Damage saves? Is that going to work just like the mechanic in True20?

Not fun = spending thousands on awesome new armour and the bad guys still hurt you more than 50% of the time. I want armour to do something for you every time you get hit. Armour as DR sounds like a good way of doing that, but I'm intrigued by rumors I hear about armour adding to both your...

I just read the latest Design and Development article on Wizards.com; Armour Class is staying. It looks like I lose. Alas... :(

I had been really hoping that Armour Class was one of the "sacred cows" they'd slaughter and replace with Armour as DR, but it looks like I'm going to be disappointed if what I read in the latest Design and Development article is true. Pity. Knights in shining armour should be much harder to...

I guess I didn't make it clear that I am already familiar with the alternate "Armour as DR" rules presented in the SRD/Unearthed Arcana. They don't satisfy me since I feel the DR numbers there are far too low. I don't regard "this is the way D&D has always done it" as a valid defense for...

If I were on the D&D 4th Edition Design team, I'd have proposed an armour system something like the following: Armour protects you in two ways--by making you harder to hit, and by absorbing some of the damage that does hit you. Light Armour adds +2 to your Class Defense Bonus, Medium armour...

I want armour as DR so badly.

Of the artists WOTC typically employs, I like Mark Smylie best by far. http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/cw_ag/75402.jpg http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/cw_ag/75422.jpg I'm always hearing how some people long for a return to the "pseudo-realism" of artists like Elmore. Elmore's work was not...

I don't think I'm at all fond of the notion that spears ignore armour, if that's what he's saying in that passage.

I'm dying to know what changes (if any) were made to the armour mechanics in the game. I know I'm being shallow, but for some reason, whether I'll love or hate this game depends on this one issue...

How does the Star Wars Saga Edition handle armour? I had heard that it was represented as DR, but as I haven't looked at it, I'm not sure...

Armour as DR. I think this needs to be implemented more than anything. But I don't want to see it done like the optional rule presented in Unearthed Arcana; I'd like to see higher DRs for the armour types across the board.

I would also like to see armour represented as Damage Reduction. We could argue endlessly about whether or not D&D is supposed to be an accurate simulation of reality, but I think this option just makes more sense than the way the game has always done it.