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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 1747243" data-attributes="member: 4910">The &quot;...&quot; jump there containing the text &quot;(for example, whether a barbarian can use her fast movement ability while wearing the armor or not) heavy armors are treated as medium, and&quot;.&nbsp; The problem there being that the text makes mention of an ability that is restricted to certain categories of armor such as fast movement, evasion, etc.&nbsp; It makes no mention one way or the other as to proficiency, and as such is open to interpretation in either way.Personally, the way I run it, armor made of mithral still requires the original proficiency of the base armor, but is treated as one category lighter for purposes of movement and other armor-category restricted abilities.&nbsp; If you don't have the appropriate proficiency, you still take the (lowered by mithral) ACP to all movement-related actions, as per standard.&nbsp; Different categories of armor require that you learn to move your body in different ways to compensate, not just for the weight, but also for the restriction in how you can maneuver due to the armor getting in the way of things.&nbsp; Even if the armor is made of a lighter metal like mithral, the same components are present and still limit your range of motion like they normally would.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 1747243, member: 4910"] The "..." jump there containing the text [i]"(for example, whether a barbarian can use her fast movement ability while wearing the armor or not) heavy armors are treated as medium, and"[/i]. The problem there being that the text makes mention of an ability that is restricted to certain categories of armor such as fast movement, evasion, etc. It makes no mention one way or the other as to proficiency, and as such is open to interpretation in either way. Personally, the way I run it, armor made of mithral still requires the original proficiency of the base armor, but is treated as one category lighter for purposes of movement and other armor-category restricted abilities. If you don't have the appropriate proficiency, you still take the (lowered by mithral) ACP to all movement-related actions, as per standard. Different categories of armor require that you learn to move your body in different ways to compensate, not just for the weight, but also for the restriction in how you can maneuver due to the armor getting in the way of things. Even if the armor is made of a lighter metal like mithral, the same components are present and still limit your range of motion like they normally would. [/QUOTE]

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