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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 7857211" data-attributes="member: 6987520"><p>I don't know that they "dropped the ball" on Cleric design, but looking through the subclasses in the PHB I found it odd that certain domains gained heavy armor proficiency, such as Life, Nature, and Tempus. IMO as far as the PHB goes, I can only really seeing the War Domain, and the Forge Domain from XGtE makes since given working with metal at a forge. For most of those domains, I think the medium armor proficiency is sufficient.</p><p></p><p>So, it does place an unfair burden on those domains to have a high enough STR to utilize the heavy armors, when otherwise STR might not be a concern.</p><p></p><p>Faith Armor is a nice way to implement the protection of other domains where heavy armor really isn't in the flavor of the typical concept. However, whether you use CHA or WIS, I would still make it partially DEX dependent since it <em>is</em> a combat feature and variants of unarmored defenses still rely on DEX, along with another ability score.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 7857211, member: 6987520"] I don't know that they "dropped the ball" on Cleric design, but looking through the subclasses in the PHB I found it odd that certain domains gained heavy armor proficiency, such as Life, Nature, and Tempus. IMO as far as the PHB goes, I can only really seeing the War Domain, and the Forge Domain from XGtE makes since given working with metal at a forge. For most of those domains, I think the medium armor proficiency is sufficient. So, it does place an unfair burden on those domains to have a high enough STR to utilize the heavy armors, when otherwise STR might not be a concern. Faith Armor is a nice way to implement the protection of other domains where heavy armor really isn't in the flavor of the typical concept. However, whether you use CHA or WIS, I would still make it partially DEX dependent since it [I]is[/I] a combat feature and variants of unarmored defenses still rely on DEX, along with another ability score. [/QUOTE]
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