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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sadrik" data-source="post: 5098176" data-attributes="member: 14506">Thank you for your spot on excellent comments!Well I was going for an approach of changing as little as possible. Do you have some better suggestions as to what to do? Because I would like the '+3' weapons to be good but I am in favor of changing as little as possible. (Honestly, I think there is a lot that could get changed in the weapons but I will defer to the RAW as much as humanly possible here)You are absolutely right, shields are not right. My first thought was that light shields can act as cover and heavy shields can act as superior cover. But then I thought, superior cover would be too good. So then I thought, I could make them both cover, but then what is the point of a heavy shield and then I thought, well perhaps total defense action could benefit. You are right though, why give total 'd' a benefit? It is nearly never used. What about my initial thought, was I right that -5 would be too powerful? And I also was thinking about this, I want to use the 5 levels of armor they have developed and not go with just light and heavy (even though the more coarse gradation would be better). I was thinking if the first feat gets you 2 HP per tier and then all the others basically add +1 per tier that is a lame feat. I thought of increasing them to +2, so the five types would give 2/4/6/8/10 which could be over-kill. Plate armor at +10 per tier definitely kicks butt.I think to implement this idea correctly armor has to be HP bonus or Resist "damage". Since hitting chance is static, the only thing that offsets your ability to defend is the ability to take more damage in combat- not how well you hit. So, it is the right idea I think.This is very true also, like I said spot on. I ask though was it supposed to be that way? When they sat down did they intend every attack to virtually be the same chances to hit? If that is true then *all* attacks should hit on a 10+ which would further streamline and make the system that much more elegant. I only ask about the designer intent vs. the actual implementation because my gut hunch is that other defense attacks were meant to be easier to hit than AC. Most monsters have a low other defense and this assumes you are targeting a lower defense to take advantage of their weaknesses. So, the 8+ sort of takes the, "Hey, maybe they hit their low defense" and makes that way all the time. Perhaps this makes the attack other defense powers more powerful than initially conceived, I don't know. Opinion?</blockquote>

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