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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4905232" data-attributes="member: 13892">So you hate that combat without armor is deadly? For me that seems like an application of observed phenomena, not a fault of the rules. I mean, as a general rule, combat without armor is deadly (in real life). This, I'm a little more sympathetic to. As a DM, I impose high DCs for trying to hike several miles on foot, over difficult terrain, in plate mail. Indeed, this is what adjustable DCs are for (remember, the DCs in the PHB are examples only). Having actually worn plate mail and climbed mountains, I would deem any attempt to climb mountains while wearing plate mail to be impossible. In my own games, the constabularies of large cities do not allow travelers to freely carry weapons or armor within, instead requiring that such items be checked at the gates. Only weapons that you can hide may be carried, and those have to be smuggled in (immediately making you a criminal). This tends to curb the use of lethal weaponry in large cities. There are exceptions, of course, and bribes can be paid — but these are exceptions. Small towns can't enforce such a ban on weapons, of course, but in the place of such formal law, small communities have a shared distrust of outsiders that serves the same purpose. If somebody starts a fight with you in a small town and you kill the scum to defend your own life, you'll still be the one swinging from the gallows in the morning because that's how small town justice works. And just try fighting off a whole town. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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