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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Enkhidu" data-source="post: 1229054" data-attributes="member: 351">Uhhh, 7 years of beating on my friends with sticks (in the SCA) has crtainly told me differently. The biggest decision with what armor to wear was always a question of flexibility vs. protectiveness. Protecting a joint with even a well articulated cop made it extrememly difficult to move in ways that became easy with lighter or no armor.  Now that one your right about. The additional weight and the heat factor are sizable (and I think the best way to deal with this in d20 terms would be to say that combat is a fatigueing exercise, much like swimming or running).  And its worse than that - football players wear the protective equivelent of leather armor!  I disagree with penalties to hit when in heavy armor: IMO the fatigue rule would better model what you're looking for.</blockquote>