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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5961083" data-attributes="member: 54877">Wacky thought out of left field. If they shifted the three groups of armor slightly, would it be more acceptable to many people to finesse the issues? Something like:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Light armor -- cloth, padded, wicker, culminating in plain leather.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Medium armor - studded leather, ring mail (which is really just a slightly more metallic form of studded), hide armor, chain shirts, etc.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Heavy armor - heavy chain, plate, banded, scale, etc.</li> </ul>I realize that just about every bit of that has been done in one edition or another, but the other key change to go with it is that a lot of the users of "light" armor in prior version would move up to medium. Rogues, ranger, barbarians, etc. would be solidly in medium, instead of on the edge, though perhaps rogues could be considered to straddle the gap.  Then, you let wizards and other such characters get light armor proficiency for free--or rather, every adventurer does. But then you make upgrading proficiency cost more than a feat, so that a rogue or ranger having medium or a fighter or paladin having heavy is a real perk.  Now, you don't need to be so strict with Dex mods. Let the Dex mod always stack, fully. Because of those who we think of as wearing armor, we are back to two realistic categories (medium and heavy instead of light and heavy). Light is flat inferior to medium, but that's ok. It's still a small amount of AC adjustment that can be readily gained for those that have nothing better. Finally, heavy can have the modest Speed penalty (or similar), in return for its better AC than medium.  I realize that's mostly all just semantics, and moving rogues and similar characters up into the "medium" category, but it does cover a wider range somewhat fairly. It also gives those on the lower end a bit of help. I thought the 11 AC of the playtest wizard was just a hair on the low side. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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