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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 446508" data-attributes="member: 3146">The good medium armors (chain mail and breastplate) are very close already. The only difference is armor check penalty (which comes up very rarely), one point of max dex bonus, and cost. Unless a character has dex 16+, there's no reason to prefer a breastplate to chain mail. Even if the character has dex 16+, it's still only one point of AC. (And two points of AC vis a vis fullplate).The same is true of the other armors. (The difference between banded and half-plate is 1 point or 0 if the character has dex 12+ and the difference between either and fullplate is 1 or 2 points of AC).I don't see how you can achieve what you want without changing the rules so as to eliminate all differences between the statistics of various armor types. At the moment, a character who chooses chain mail over a breastplate will only be slightly suboptimally equipped. Certainly not stupid or hopeless. The same is true of a character who chooses studded leather over a chain shirt. If you change the rules to make them more equivalent, I don't see that there would really be much of any difference left.</blockquote>