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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8038046" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Me and my group of old timers are currently working on a house rule that might do the trick. Medium armor from chain shirt to breast removes 1 pt of damage and it can absorb such damage for 10 point for each AC point the armor gives over 12. Half plate and heavy armor up to chain mail absorb 2 points and anything above chain mail absorb 3 points. All cumulative with heavy armor master feat.. Once the hp pool of the armor is depleted, it loses 1pt of AC and needs repair. Heavy armor master feat still works even if the armor's hp are depleted. So far, my players love it. It is fun and gives back some importance to armor. It is still in testing but so far the only complain is that the lowest medium armor are a bit low on hp. We might raise the hp by 10 and it could work. Again we are testing it.As for plate IRL. A knight was litterally a tank. Yes there were fighting techniques to fight plate wearers (such as half swording) but the most common trope was to use polearms. You could go and see the analysis that Skalagrim makes of a knight fighting commoners in a short movie. It is really good and shoes how it probably would have worked out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8038046, member: 6855114"] Me and my group of old timers are currently working on a house rule that might do the trick. Medium armor from chain shirt to breast removes 1 pt of damage and it can absorb such damage for 10 point for each AC point the armor gives over 12. Half plate and heavy armor up to chain mail absorb 2 points and anything above chain mail absorb 3 points. All cumulative with heavy armor master feat.. Once the hp pool of the armor is depleted, it loses 1pt of AC and needs repair. Heavy armor master feat still works even if the armor's hp are depleted. So far, my players love it. It is fun and gives back some importance to armor. It is still in testing but so far the only complain is that the lowest medium armor are a bit low on hp. We might raise the hp by 10 and it could work. Again we are testing it. As for plate IRL. A knight was litterally a tank. Yes there were fighting techniques to fight plate wearers (such as half swording) but the most common trope was to use polearms. You could go and see the analysis that Skalagrim makes of a knight fighting commoners in a short movie. It is really good and shoes how it probably would have worked out. [/QUOTE]

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