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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seule" data-source="post: 928512" data-attributes="member: 407">Re: Re: Armour Dilemma: Am I Wrong Here?As a player and a GM, I love situations like this.  Putting the characters in situations where the standard tactics won't work is one of the things I strive for as a GM (although far from all the time).  Because of things like this, in a game I play in, both armour wearers have Called armour to deal with these situations.  Anyone who would put on armour rather than help innocents who will die is a thoroughly evil act, IMHO.  On the antimagic front, in the same game I play a Wizard with a Headband of Intellect +8 (yes, we are epic level, barely).  We had a combat, against a dragon, in a dead-magic area.  The shock of dropping 8 Int suddenly caused my character to make a poor decision, and attack the dragon in melee with my quarterstaff (which wasn't even Masterwork).  I of course missed, it being the first time in 10 levels I'd ever rolled a melee attack, and the dragon took me into negatives, with it's response.  It was a blast, and Ashimar learned that without magic, he's really feeble.  We still recount the story of how Ashimar charged the Dragon.I guess my point is to look at having your usual abilities taken away as a challenge, and a roleplaying opportunity.  The tank deprived of armor can maybe beg a Mage Armor off the Wizard, and fight defensively a lot.  The wizard without spells can go a little... odd.  The rogue fighting a construct can try other things than backstab.  They are all the same, and I rarely see the rogues complaining.If it's every combat with no armour, then there's an issue.  Otherwise, it's just greebling.  --SeuleEdit: There's no way I'm reading 10 pages of this thread.  I just don't care enough.  I red a bit, then posted with my opinion.  That's it.  This is not a personal attack on anyone.</blockquote>

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