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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6683885" data-attributes="member: 5834">That's just it. He didn't work very hard to get that AC. I handed out +1 plate armor. The warlock bought plate armor with his gold (nothing else to really buy). Took defensive fighting style which is the most attractive of the paladin fighting styles. And bought a shield. Cast a 1st level shield of faith spell. Now I feel if I give him any more magic armor, I'll exacerbate the problem.Heavy armor users don't have to work very hard to get a high AC. Whereas other classes do have to work fairly hard to do the same, especially casters. Yet casters lack the same level of defensive spells they used to have. The main option for a caster is to avoid getting hit. The problem as a DM I have is that why would an enemy not take out a soft target caster first given that eliminates a lot of power from the group and is an easy target. A monster that can hit a heavy armor user can hit a caster very easily and kill them very quickly due to low hit points. I have to take this into account in 5E and I didn't have to do so in 3E/Pathfinder because a caster had defensive abilities they could keep active that equaled heavy armor use. They don't have the same defensive abilities in this game.</blockquote>