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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 5048195" data-attributes="member: 2303">First, the discussion on balance and allowed arms really is relevant. I've not seen a game in a long where wearing armor was so obviously superior that you had to occasionally penalize it with social stigma. And I'd not want to play such a game; basically it only has two modes, one where armor is worn and too powerful, one where it is not worn, and armor wearers are over-penalized.Second, looking at pre-modern history, professional fighters have rarely been stigmatized for wearing arms. In fact, the wearing of arms was a mark of nobility; for a knight or nobleman to be caught unarmed is embarrassing. And PCs should generally be of knightly class or the equivalent, or they'll run into all kinds of other problems - like loitering laws. Commoners were simply not supposed to live adventuring lives. Basically, this means that classes like knights, fighters, and paladins (I am talking both character class and social class here) that wear arms as a part of their daily lives could also wear arms as a part of their social life. Characters like rouges would not be expected to be of knightly caliber, and thus not trusted to wear arms on social occasions, but then again they never wear heavy arms or armor anyway.</blockquote>