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<blockquote data-quote="Tarek" data-source="post: 3775306" data-attributes="member: 6661">Why not have armor give both a Defense boost and DR, but have the Defense boost overridden by the class bonus to armor? This allows the use of heavy armor at lower levels, but makes it increasingly unattractive as your PCs hit higher levels. That makes it so that the heavy-armor wearing guys end up being more vulnerable to being knocked around at high levels, which offsets the DR.In any case, for this kind of thing to work, the DR for armor must be relatively small; 1 point for light, 2 points for medium, 3 points for heavy, or about that scale.Another thing you can do is simply not give out &quot;enchanted&quot; or &quot;enhanced&quot; heavy armor, assuming that magic exists in your campaign.Also, point out to your players that armor check and weight penalties are doubled when swimming... and have your campaign visit city analogs of Venice, or have lots of chase scenes over bridges.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tarek, post: 3775306, member: 6661"] Why not have armor give both a Defense boost and DR, but have the Defense boost overridden by the class bonus to armor? This allows the use of heavy armor at lower levels, but makes it increasingly unattractive as your PCs hit higher levels. That makes it so that the heavy-armor wearing guys end up being more vulnerable to being knocked around at high levels, which offsets the DR. In any case, for this kind of thing to work, the DR for armor must be relatively small; 1 point for light, 2 points for medium, 3 points for heavy, or about that scale. Another thing you can do is simply not give out "enchanted" or "enhanced" heavy armor, assuming that magic exists in your campaign. Also, point out to your players that armor check and weight penalties are doubled when swimming... and have your campaign visit city analogs of Venice, or have lots of chase scenes over bridges. [/QUOTE]

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