DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
While I enjoyed reading most of your post and agree with much of it, there are two issues I will address:
This is completely untrue. Padded armor, or the gambeson, aketon, padded jack, etc. (by whatever name) was certainly meant to be used as an armor and preceded the armors that later were layered over it (hence, the arming doublet/shirt). It is an excellent and very effective armor, simple to manufacture and repair. Foot soldiers used varieties of this form of armor for centuries in cultures all over the world.
Yeah, I wouldn't really advocate the INT replacing DEX, but I can understand how a player could try to justify it.
Sure, a lot of fighting is the muscle memory you build and learn to react and fight without thought, but in a magical-fantasy world such as most D&D games, who knows what a Wizard could do with his INT???
Padded armor wasn't meant to be "armor" in any real sense. It represented the padding normally worn under the more substantial armors.
This is completely untrue. Padded armor, or the gambeson, aketon, padded jack, etc. (by whatever name) was certainly meant to be used as an armor and preceded the armors that later were layered over it (hence, the arming doublet/shirt). It is an excellent and very effective armor, simple to manufacture and repair. Foot soldiers used varieties of this form of armor for centuries in cultures all over the world.
Now, on a separate topic, someone her discussed the idea of adding INT bonus to armor class.
As my Sensei once said to me, "If you have to think about it, you're too slow." I mean, if Int was applicable then the ners in sholl wouldn't have had anything to worry about when a football player was in a bad mood.
Anybody ever see that happen? I never did. Smart guys tended to lose those encounters, unless they were truly smart. As in, smart enough to run away before the "encounter" got started.
Yeah, I wouldn't really advocate the INT replacing DEX, but I can understand how a player could try to justify it.
Sure, a lot of fighting is the muscle memory you build and learn to react and fight without thought, but in a magical-fantasy world such as most D&D games, who knows what a Wizard could do with his INT???
