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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 3184912" data-attributes="member: 893">Hrm... this is a tough one.  Personally I think the toughest shoes to fill will be the fighting classes, the Fighters, Paladins and other classes that rely on armour.The Hexblade is an interesting spellcasting class that can wear light armour and focus' primarily on self buffing to become a more effective fighter.  Simplest example off the top of my head is truestrike which combined with a fighter type build attribute wise can allow a Hexblade to deal some pretty significant damage with a melee weapon.One other thing to consider (and perhaps I'm presuming a bit too far into your campaign) is that low tech does not necessarily mean that there is no heavy armour.  Even Darksun had some heavier armour types and there was almost no metal there.  A bronze breastplate and greaves would probably be considered heavy armour for example and bronze working is a fairly simple metalworking skill.  There may be other examples of heavy armour depending on where exactly your tech level sits.For example in a campaign that I'm roughing out I'm trying to set things at a late darkage early middle age era.  Think of the battle of Hastings give or take a decade from 1066.  Heavy cavalry and lances are just starting to prove their dominance of the battlefield and chainmail is just about the best armour anyone can get.  Looking at heavy armour in the PHB all of it (with the possible exception of splint mail which is a fictional armour type anyhow) is a variant of plate armour, which is about 300 years too advanced for what I'm shooting for.  I solved this by creating a few new armour types with simmilar stats as other heavy armour but fit the tone I'm looking for.  One example is "Horsemans Mail" which is basically heavy chainmail with the rings packed much more densely.  I gave it stats simmilar to halfplate which although it's not quite as effective as full plate it allows those who want to create tanks an option.</blockquote>

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