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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Proctor" data-source="post: 4761539" data-attributes="member: 78547">Oh, so you'll just stick the Plate Armor and Shield Fighter with a -4 to all rolls?&nbsp; That seems perfectly fair...&nbsp; &lt;/sarcasm&gt;&nbsp; (In terms of attack bonus, that would be the equivalent of penalizing him by removing 8 levels...that's seems pretty steep to me)Honestly though, I just don't see what you supposedly gain out of giving the shaft to any PC's in heavy armor.&nbsp; Wouldn't sleeping in hardened, boiled leather be a bit uncomfortable too?&nbsp; Or how about sleeping while wearing hides so thick that they can stop a spear, but apparently don't bother you wearing them 24/7?Basically, if you want to be realistic, then sleeping in almost anything will bug you over time.&nbsp; You don't normally wear the same clothes every single day and night, do you?&nbsp; Without washing them?Practically speaking though, militaries would've had a lot of difficulty with heavier armors if the soldiers could never sleep or lie down in them.&nbsp; There's several examples of such in classic literature.&nbsp; I believe there's a couple in Le Morte D'Arthur IIRC.&nbsp; I would think that when you're dealing with people who have trained all of their lives in that armor that they could wear it and sleep for a night without side effects that were too adverse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doctor Proctor, post: 4761539, member: 78547"] Oh, so you'll just stick the Plate Armor and Shield Fighter with a -4 to all rolls? That seems perfectly fair... </sarcasm> (In terms of attack bonus, that would be the equivalent of penalizing him by removing 8 levels ...that's seems pretty steep to me) Honestly though, I just don't see what you supposedly gain out of giving the shaft to any PC's in heavy armor. Wouldn't sleeping in hardened, boiled leather be a bit uncomfortable too? Or how about sleeping while wearing hides so thick that they can stop a spear, but apparently don't bother you wearing them 24/7? Basically, if you want to be realistic, then sleeping in almost anything will bug you over time. You don't normally wear the same clothes every single day and night, do you? Without washing them? Practically speaking though, militaries would've had a lot of difficulty with heavier armors if the soldiers could never sleep or lie down in them. There's several examples of such in classic literature. I believe there's a couple in Le Morte D'Arthur IIRC. I would think that when you're dealing with people who have trained all of their lives in that armor that they could wear it and sleep for a night without side effects that were [I]too[/I] adverse. [/QUOTE]

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