Bringing Back the Medium Armors

[Aust Diamondew]

In my games the most popular armors are Full plate, Breast Plate and chainshirt, oh and sometimes leather or padded armor. We still use medium armor. But I would like to see more variety beyond those mentioned above. Oh well.

 

[UltimaGabe]

I have to agree that nobody uses Medium armors as it is. A couple of my characters have used Chainmail or a Breastplate, but in all cases it was at least Mythril.

 

[drunkmoogle]

Since my addon houserule that clerics don't get HAP, we've been seeing quite a few breastplates around. We've also seen clerics MC into fighter to get HAP and tower shields rather than the gravy bonus feat... kewl.

Don't forget the barbarian. And druid with Ironwood. And spellcasters with ignore ASF: XX%

My point is: medium armors have a use. They are shafted for those classes who cannot go all into the heavy, restrictive armors; for game balance.

 

[Chacal]

Back in 2e when we got tired of having fighters preferring magic bracers and cloaks to armor , we gave
a kind of DR to the armors.

With 3e we adapted the rules in a simple way : medium armor give DR 1/- and heavy armor DR 2/-


Chacal

 

[Staffan]

In d20 Modern, most Medium armors let you move at 25 ft, which would be a compromise between the slowness of Heavy armors and the speed of Light/No armor.

 

[drunkmoogle]

In d20 Modern, most Medium armors let you move at 25 ft, which would be a compromise between the slowness of Heavy armors and the speed of Light/No armor.

Ah... but in DnD you have "Small" PCs to deal with.

How does the speed equate when transfered to small creatures? They can't move at a speed of 18.5'.

 

[Vrecknidj]

Ah... but in DnD you have "Small" PCs to deal with.

How does the speed equate when transfered to small creatures? They can't move at a speed of 18.5'.

I have a suggestion . . . .

=======Move-Action Speed===Double-Move Speed====Run Speed
Armor---Spd (30)--Spd (20)----Spd (30)--Spd (20)-----Spd (30)--Spd (20)
Light------30-------20----------60-------40-----------120--------80
Medium----25-------15----------50-------35----------100--------70
Heavy-----20-------15----------40-------30-----------80---------60

Dave

 

[Staffan]

Ah... but in DnD you have "Small" PCs to deal with.

How does the speed equate when transfered to small creatures? They can't move at a speed of 18.5'.

A speed of 20' translates to 15' when wearing medium armor (or medium encumbrance), and 10' for heavy. A bit harsher.

 

[CCamfield]

I think a speed of 25' for medium armour is not a bad idea. The only issue is how does it scale up or down for small/large characters?

Random thought: it'd be neat to change the speed limit by armour to something that determined movement speed based on the Strength of the character and the weight of the armour, and perhaps something based on their overall load and Constitution to determine how long they could move at full speed.

That way, perhaps a character with super Strength (24?) could move 30' per round in full plate. Or on a more moderate scale, perhaps a character with Strength 16+ could move 30' in a breastplate, while a character with Strength 14+ could move 30' in something lighter, like a chain shirt or chainmail, and if they put on a breastplate they'd be reduced to 20'.