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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 4655221" data-attributes="member: 12377">Here's another variant I thought of.1. Masterwork heavy armor only increases AC by 1 for level 16 armor and by 2 for level 26 armor (so the amount of armor increase for being masterwork is identical between light and heavy armor).2. The armor bonus provided by heavy armor is much less:Chainmail:  +2 (instead of +6)Scalemail:  +3 (instead of +7)Platemail:  +4 (instead of +8)3. When wearing heavy armor, your AC includes either your Strength or Constitution modifier, whichever is higher:AC = 10 + 1/2 your level + your armor bonus + your Strength or Constitution modifierSince the bonus scales with ability score increases, we don't need a massive masterwork boost to keep up with the light-armor guys.This rule seems to match the genre flavor (heavy-armor-users tend to also have pretty good Str and/or Con).  It's roughly balanced -- on paper it looks like it might overpower Str, but in practice most characters will wind up within 1 point of the AC they would have under the normal rules.  The only characters left out in the cold here are laser-clerics and laser-paladins, but those were kind of odd builds.  Maybe they can wear light armor; I have to suspect that most characters will have one of either Str, Con, Dex, or Int at reasonable levels. -- 77IM</blockquote>