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<blockquote data-quote="Boddynock" data-source="post: 3930530" data-attributes="member: 21506">I don't know of a Heavy Armor Optimization feat - it certainly hasn't come up in recent discussion.My first thought is that such a feat would be underpowered. Since the benefits have to do with increased mobility - reduced ACP, improved speed, increased Max Dex Bonus for light armour - there'd be a tradeoff for a dexterous character, who'd have to forgo Dex Bonus for improved AC. While that's always been the case for an agile PC who wants extra AC, the payoffs for Heavy Armor Optimization would seem to me to be a feeble restitution for losing however many points of Dex bonus.Given the progression and change of benefits which exist in Light -&gt; Medium Armor Op., it's unlikely that we'd go back to an improved Max Dex bonus for Heavy A.O.Still, if you're interested, put together a proposal (I'd use the existing feats as a template) and float it. People will make their observations about it, and you'll get an answer one way or the other. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Boddynock, post: 3930530, member: 21506"] I don't know of a Heavy Armor Optimization feat - it certainly hasn't come up in recent discussion. My first thought is that such a feat would be underpowered. Since the benefits have to do with increased mobility - reduced ACP, improved speed, increased Max Dex Bonus for light armour - there'd be a tradeoff for a dexterous character, who'd have to forgo Dex Bonus for improved AC. While that's always been the case for an agile PC who wants extra AC, the payoffs for Heavy Armor Optimization would seem to me to be a feeble restitution for losing however many points of Dex bonus. Given the progression and change of benefits which exist in Light -> Medium Armor Op., it's unlikely that we'd go back to an improved Max Dex bonus for Heavy A.O. Still, if you're interested, put together a proposal (I'd use the existing feats as a template) and float it. People will make their observations about it, and you'll get an answer one way or the other. ;) [/QUOTE]

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