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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xeviat" data-source="post: 6705599" data-attributes="member: 57494">Nothing in the rules say that you can't sleep in heavy armor or you suffer a penalty to swim in heavy armor. Just saying, those are house rules. They're sensical house rules, I freely admit, but they aren't inherent parts of the system so they really shouldn't be part of a discussion of the system.So what I'm seeing is that medium armor is not intended for dedicated combatants. It is meant to shore up the AC of lower str, lower dex characters. The melee characters who do use it (barbarian, valor bard, str ranger) are meant to have lower AC, as they don't have heavy armor but with a 14 Dex they are at even AC (though with stealth penalty) with light armor?I'm still having a hard time reconciling that with the low levels. If you have a 14 Dex and chainshirt then you have identical AC as 16 Dex and studded leather; breastplate matches with 18 Dex. 14 Dex and scale mail matches Chainmail; half-plate matches splint. That's the part I'm not seeing.If I didn't care what other people's opinions was, though, I'd just add in a 3rd tier of medium armors and be done with it. I'm looking for a reason as to why this is. Why does the Str Ranger have better AC than the Dex ranger until level 8?</blockquote>