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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9083615" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>This is not a restriction on the PC though, it's a restriction on the GM. "metal armor" is not defined but even under the loosest interpretation it's pretty much padded leather & hide. That's fine if we are talking about a class that can call dex it's primary or even secondary attribute, but we are not. At best dex is going to be tertiary behind wis & con.</p><p></p><p>+1 AC for "not wearing metal armor" is a class feature worth between 15 & 40gp depending on if the player settles on leather or hide armor. <strong> That right there is a class feature with no purpose other than to troll the player </strong>& as a result puts pressure on the GM when the player justifiably angles for "nonmetal" breastplate half plate or even plate for a base unmodified 18-19+shield AC. Problems don't stop there though because 5e does not have the mechanical hooks to differentiate that +1 from a +1 on the armor a +1 on the shield a +1 on a spell a +1 on an item like a ring/cloak of protection... etc.</p><p></p><p>The whole metal armor thing is a leftover victim of 5e's quest to simplify at any cost getting rid of bonus types that made it important due to <a href="https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/barkskin.htm" target="_blank">barkskin </a>giving a <em>natural</em> armor bonus as opposed to the armor shield enhancement & luck or deflection bonus granted by <a href="https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/63601/do-bonuses-of-the-same-type-stack" target="_blank">those other things</a>. The very significant natural armor bonus stacked with all of those even if the other elements conflicted in nonstacking ways & as a result the nonmetal limitation was <em>not</em> simply trolling the player like this would be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9083615, member: 93670"] This is not a restriction on the PC though, it's a restriction on the GM. "metal armor" is not defined but even under the loosest interpretation it's pretty much padded leather & hide. That's fine if we are talking about a class that can call dex it's primary or even secondary attribute, but we are not. At best dex is going to be tertiary behind wis & con. +1 AC for "not wearing metal armor" is a class feature worth between 15 & 40gp depending on if the player settles on leather or hide armor. [B] That right there is a class feature with no purpose other than to troll the player [/B]& as a result puts pressure on the GM when the player justifiably angles for "nonmetal" breastplate half plate or even plate for a base unmodified 18-19+shield AC. Problems don't stop there though because 5e does not have the mechanical hooks to differentiate that +1 from a +1 on the armor a +1 on the shield a +1 on a spell a +1 on an item like a ring/cloak of protection... etc. The whole metal armor thing is a leftover victim of 5e's quest to simplify at any cost getting rid of bonus types that made it important due to [URL='https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/barkskin.htm']barkskin [/URL]giving a [I]natural[/I] armor bonus as opposed to the armor shield enhancement & luck or deflection bonus granted by [URL='https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/63601/do-bonuses-of-the-same-type-stack']those other things[/URL]. The very significant natural armor bonus stacked with all of those even if the other elements conflicted in nonstacking ways & as a result the nonmetal limitation was [I]not[/I] simply trolling the player like this would be. [/QUOTE]
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