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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 1618620" data-attributes="member: 23">HelloOur group has come to the conclusion that medium armor is, well, a very mediorce choice.  Let's compare the best light armor, a chain shirt, with the best medium armor, a breastplate.The breastplate gives you 1 more AC BUT:  -weights 5 pounds more-has one dex bonus less (3 instead of 4)-2 more armor check penalty-slows you down by 10 feet (if your speed is 30).Would you use a magical item that gave you 1 AC but had all those penalties?  Heck no!The problem is of course that all those penalties make sense.  But we sought a way to mitigate them.  We (our gaming group) felt that the worse penalty was the movement one.  So here is what we did.-Wearing medium armor hinders runing, and you can only run at times 3 instead of times 4-Wearing heavy armor reduces your base movement to 20 feet (from 30 feet).So in other words, we inverted the movement penaly of medium and heavy armor.  We feel that this makes medium armor a better (if still sub optimal) choice.Coments?Ancalagon</blockquote>