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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elethiomel" data-source="post: 4191164" data-attributes="member: 49897">You asked who and why. I answered. I'm sorry if the answer is not to your liking - had that character been played any further, it would have been a better case (and a more extreme example on top of it).I thought the enhancement in question (Easy Travel) eliminated the speed reduction, the max dex reduction, and the check penalty listed in the Encumbrance section of the PHBI don't know about that. Maybe it should. But it doesn't.Any who wants to buy the bracers of armor, and none, respectively. I'm going to cut most of the rest of the quoting out here, because I think you're not getting what I'm getting at.If you have a character with a dex modifier of +12, bracers will give you a higher sum of AC than any other armor option, for the same (actually lower, as you don't need to buy the base armor) cost. That's it.Yes, few characters will have a dex modifier of +12, and they will tend to have it at high levels, but that's irrelevant. These characters can exist within the core ruleset (PHB, DMG, MM only), which can't be said about many other extreme characters at these levels. That bracers of armor has a niche market doesn't prevent them from being bought by that niche market, and making them cheaper would make that niche market more powerful by giving them more money to spare.Full Plate +1 is a much, much cheaper way to get 9 Armor AC than a Chain Shirt +5. Why? Because with the Chain Shirt, you have an additional 3 AC you can get out of Dexterity. According to your argument (which seems to be that "Armor bonus is all that matters, the max dex is irrelevant and any other abilities are footnotes at best"), these two armors should cost the same.That's great! For arcane casters. And people who happen to be friends with arcane casters. For everyone else, there's Bracers or Armor.</blockquote>

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