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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falling Icicle" data-source="post: 6224546" data-attributes="member: 17077">Rituals are "at-will" in that they have no daily usage limit, but they still require 10+ minutes to cast. A rogue, on the other hand, can pick locks as a standard action. That means he can try to pick a lock 100 times in the time it takes a wizard to cast knock as a ritual.There's no guarantee that a wizard is even going to know the knock spell. And while it's true that spell slots are more flexible, they also come with a lot of disadvantages to balance that, the biggest one being that they have a daily limit. We both agree that knock should be inferior to a rogue's lockpicking. Where we differ is just on how much inferior it should be. IMO, it should be somewhere in between rogue lockpicking and the crudest option - smashing down the door. The problem with the loud noise on knock is, that's the biggest reason not to just smash down the door - it makes a lot of noise. So why spend 10 minutes casting knock, or spend a daily spell slot, when the fighter can just bash down the door? Either way, the monsters are going to know you're coming.Plate armor should be the best armor - at least as far as protection goes. That doesn't mean it should be superior to other heavy armors in every other way as well. IMO, there should be a benefit to wearing lighter and less complex armor, such as lower armor check and speed penalties. Otherwise, every character is just going to obtain the best armor type within the category he can wear as soon as possible, and I don't like the idea of practically every character wearing just one of three types of armor (mithral shirt, mithral scale or mithral plate) after level 5 or so, once characters have 5-6,000 gp to buy the best armor. And some of the armor types are just pointless. Why would anyone wear padded armor when leather is just plain better and is only 5 gp more? The same goes for hide vs studded leather (and why on earth is studded leather medium armor now?).</blockquote>

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