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<blockquote data-quote="DanotheSlender" data-source="post: 6072504" data-attributes="member: 6703724">My buddies and i once created a combat system that involved armor as damage mitigation, and relied on a dex/level basis for AC..if i remember right it worked pretty well, because while heavier armors slowed you down they mitigated a lot more damage than the lighter armors...take the ranger type guy in leathers vs. the pure fighter in banded mail, ranger had an ac of 16 and his leather armor (light armor no penalty) mitigated the first 1d4+2 points of damage delivered to him, so fighter hits for 10 with his sword and the armor took 5 points away, meanwhile the banded mail mitigates 1d10+2 damage, but lowers ac by 4 (heavy armor -4 to AC) fighter guy has an ac of only 11 so easier to hit but also harder to damage.Worked pretty good for us back in the day. One of our not so regular group members really didn't like it because he hadn't had a hand in helping us work out all the fiddly bits. He was quite the vocal rules lawyer...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DanotheSlender, post: 6072504, member: 6703724"] My buddies and i once created a combat system that involved armor as damage mitigation, and relied on a dex/level basis for AC..if i remember right it worked pretty well, because while heavier armors slowed you down they mitigated a lot more damage than the lighter armors...take the ranger type guy in leathers vs. the pure fighter in banded mail, ranger had an ac of 16 and his leather armor (light armor no penalty) mitigated the first 1d4+2 points of damage delivered to him, so fighter hits for 10 with his sword and the armor took 5 points away, meanwhile the banded mail mitigates 1d10+2 damage, but lowers ac by 4 (heavy armor -4 to AC) fighter guy has an ac of only 11 so easier to hit but also harder to damage. Worked pretty good for us back in the day. One of our not so regular group members really didn't like it because he hadn't had a hand in helping us work out all the fiddly bits. He was quite the vocal rules lawyer... [/QUOTE]

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