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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jimtillman" data-source="post: 7334067" data-attributes="member: 73444">your asking to add complexity where its not neededold fashion armor in starfinder is already covered by the Archaic keyword.it does not have the lifesupport properties of advanced armors and Arcahic weapons do less damage to people wearing advanced armor over Archaic armor.also archaic armors tend to have crappy kac and little to no eac alreadyalso no guns were not invented to primarily  beat armor, in fact full plate came about as a way to beat early firearmsfirearms were invented because they were vastly easier to field then longbows and had other edges against other ranged weapons.plate mail went out of useage because it was expensive and sweltering before rifles could reliably penetrate  it "though breast plates remained in some use up until ww1but thats not even important, what is it to grok that realism has nothing to do with starfinder,pathfinder , d&d  or most rpgs.there is nothing realistic about any of the combat rules.one of the main goals of starfinder is to take the basic pathfinder frame and clean it up adding a 3rd ac would be pointless and add needless complexity</blockquote>