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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8144811" data-attributes="member: 6788736">It was better than your 'I cosplayed as a Knight during a LARP tourney' once argument.It's unavoidable! When you're wearing 20kgs of plates (ceramic or steel) encased in kevlar or cloth, you're going to get chafing and sweating. Sitting (and lying) down and standing up, and doing normal basic tasks become more difficult.You can get a comfortable backpack with 20kgs in it and wear it around town all day, but I assure you, by the end of the day you're going to be sweaty and sore and are going to want to put it down. You're not going to want to wear it around town doing your shopping, sight seeing, getting dinner and so forth.Relevant to an extent (Barovia is dangerous, its poorly policed, you are being watched by a powerful vampire, and the locals have seen it all), but it would still be super weird seeing someone walk into town in full plate armour, order an ale, before retiring to their room, and then come back down from their room, still decked out in the panoply of war.Even in Barovia there are social norms to follow. At a bare minimum the dude in armour in such a scenario would be getting disadvantage to Charisma checks (barring Intimidate, where they might actually get advantage) and would be flat out refused service in many shops.Image being a shopkeeper and some dude rocks into your shop wearing a plate carrier and ballistic helmet. You would be pushing the red panic button and lifting the security screens before he got 2 steps in the room.Irrelevant to me. I expect realistic human behaviour from my PCs and reject absurdism.Taking off your armour in town after a hard week on the road wearing it most of the day, and after numerous battles, is what a normal, sane human would do.There is no 'in game' reason to do so (other than the DM slapping an exhaustion level on you for basically unrealistically living in your armour 24/7, and penalties to social interactions, or outright refusal of many PCs to even want to talk to you), but that doesnt take away from the utter absurdity of someone wearing armour all day, every day, even in towns and during downtime.It doesnt happen. It has no historical precedent. It's absurd.</blockquote>

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