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Message: <blockquote data-quote="katahn" data-source="post: 4202932" data-attributes="member: 65004">He starts off as a warlord, and then eventually starts dabbling in magic.  He finds magic difficult to control at first, almost too wild for him, so his dabbling in magic remains minimal.  Over time though, he starts to master the arcane and devotes himself more and more to it.  As he does so, he starts finding his battlefield command skills getting rustier and rustier, as his mind starts grasping and mastering magical knowledge his ability to identify with and inspire his troops wane and so eventually he switches from being a warlord(wizard) to a wizard(warlord).  Since warlord "healing" is actually "boosting morale and inspiring" this fits.Why doesn't he remember how to wear armor?  Maybe it's just been a while, and yes presumably he remembers how to wear it, but after focusing so much of his time and attention to magic he's a bit out of shape and the armor's heavier on him than he remembers and thus it burdens him more than it once did... functionally acting as if he doesn't know how to wear it anymore.  Of course he could "get back into shape" by spending a feat to get the armor proficiency...Why doesn't he remember how to swing a sword?  Of course he remembers how to use weapons... but again after so much focus on book-reading and long hours sitting down in a study reading dusty tomes he's not quite in as good a shape as he used to be.  He's still quite proficient, just out of practice and the sword's a little heavier in his hand than he remembers so he doesn't get the full bonus.Now don't confuse "out of shape" and implications of not being as strong as he used to be to mean "loss of strength or constitution".  These are just role-playing explanations, ways of explaining the loss of proficiencies in a way that makes narrative sense.  The rules are simply a way of modeling a narrative story in a way that can be adjudicated, they are subservient to the story, to the narrative effort, not superior to it.  So just because the rules don't literally call for a loss of an attribute it doesn't mean one cannot be role-played has having happened in some subtle way.</blockquote>

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