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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 1310958" data-attributes="member: 8158">Your assertion here is that some weapons are inferior to others because they do slightly less damage  in exchange for some other benefit like disarm bonuses or the ability to do double damage when set against a charge. That's a rather subjective statement.The difference between 1d6 and 1d8 or 1d8 and 1d10 is not monumental, and IME the special qualities you've just mentioned come in quite handy if a fighter has a sufficient grasp of tactics to do more than just roll to hit every round. But more to the point, none of this proves that the weapon system isn't designed to be well-balanced with a wealth of viable options in mind, so the analogy does not "break down" as you claimed. At best your assessment simply proves that the designers didn't bat 1000, which is true enough. But with the armor system, they struck out completely. It's different because with armor there are clear winners, and worse, there are far more losers than winners. There isn't a wealth of viable options here.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  Why the heck would someone NOT want to sleep in light armor when they're in the middle of the wilderness or some hellacious dungeon? It may not be real comfy, but it beats waking up in the middle of the night and having to fight off some monster in your jammies. And the mounted character doesn't always get the option to ride his horse in every fight. That the armor class afforded by the lesser armors is not always significantly worse than that afforded by the better armors is certainly relevant to the question of whether there's a reason for them to exist.They don't have a reason to, other than apathy. And when they fail that Dex-based skill check and die because of that -1 armor check penalty that they didn't care about, I'll bet they're bound to kick themselves (once someone points it out to their detail-overlooking arses  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).</blockquote>

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