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<blockquote data-quote="Gorgoroth" data-source="post: 5941376" data-attributes="member: 6674889">...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />You don't have to rub it in, Jester, the polls are in, it's fine.It's just the more I think about my old AD&amp;D group with fullplate wearing paladins, and how they'd walk around and never take any damage except for crits, eventually the DM rolling a huge # of rolls just to check for 20s. Kind sucks.The only viable solution in here I've seen that keeps heavy armor strictly better than light armor, is keeping the Dex bonus up, but that means having 25 AC. Can the game handle that?Or are you one who thinks Heavy armor should be numerically worse than light armor. When you factor in all the rules of the game, even with plate getting 1/2 dex, that means it'll be around +1 or +2 AC over the studded leather guy.1500gp, -2 to all physical skills, perception, weight, swimming, climbing sneaking, moving around...for +1 or +2 max over a studded leather guy, and that's IF you have an 18 dex and wear plate at the same time. There's a good chance you could end up with lower AC than the light armored guy.If that happens to this game, I'm done. For all the smart-alecky comments to the contrary, I hope they can fix it because I'm not alone thinking the AC / armor system needs fixing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gorgoroth, post: 5941376, member: 6674889"] [b]...[/b] :p You don't have to rub it in, Jester, the polls are in, it's fine. It's just the more I think about my old AD&D group with fullplate wearing paladins, and how they'd walk around and never take any damage except for crits, eventually the DM rolling a huge # of rolls just to check for 20s. Kind sucks. The only viable solution in here I've seen that keeps heavy armor strictly better than light armor, is keeping the Dex bonus up, but that means having 25 AC. Can the game handle that? Or are you one who thinks Heavy armor should be numerically worse than light armor. When you factor in all the rules of the game, even with plate getting 1/2 dex, that means it'll be around +1 or +2 AC over the studded leather guy. 1500gp, -2 to all physical skills, perception, weight, swimming, climbing sneaking, moving around...for +1 or +2 max over a studded leather guy, and that's IF you have an 18 dex and wear plate at the same time. There's a good chance you could end up with lower AC than the light armored guy. If that happens to this game, I'm done. For all the smart-alecky comments to the contrary, I hope they can fix it because I'm not alone thinking the AC / armor system needs fixing. [/QUOTE]

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