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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 578167" data-attributes="member: 3146">It makes sense that only thieves' tools (or improvised thieves tools) can pick locks. It doesn't make a lot of sense to say that an axe can cut a long slit in a purple worm's stomach (so the PC can get out) but a dagger can't. Axes are for hacking deep, but short holes. A dagger (or shortsword) would be the thing to use for drawing a long, slice to escape from.Let me see, I've played with quite a few beginning paladins who wore splint mail and my cleric wore banded mail from level 2 to level 4. I've seen lots of NPCs wearing both too.Of course, they are both inferior to full-plate in just about every way so, when the money is available, most characters switch to full plate (although I've also seen several switch to breastplates or mithral breastplates). As I see it, the starting amors of choice for characters who don't have much of a dex bonus are:Initial:Fighter/paladin, dex +0 and a cheap weapon: Splint Mail.Fighter/paladin, dex +1 or an expensive weapon (like a greatsword) or Cleric: Chain MailFighter/Paladin/Cleric with lots of nonarmor gear: Scale Mail.Late Level 1-early level 3:Fighter/Paladin/Cleric dex +0: Splint MailFighter/Paladin/Cleric dex +1: Banded MailLate Level 2-level 3:Fighter/Paladin/Cleric dex +0: Half-plateFighter/Paladin/Cleric dex +1: Banded MailLevel 4+Heavy Armor character, dex <+3: Full plateMobility not much of a concern; dex 16+: Breastplate (This choice is quite rare though since it's a suboptimal construction and doesn't gain much mobility advantage over fullplate from the point of AC lost or much protection advantage over a chain shirt for the mobility sacrificed).</blockquote>

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