I found it ridiculous how 3e decided that your DEX modifier to AC was limited due to the armor type. Even more so with 5e.
Whilst that is an amusing maxim, I'm not sure I buy it in this case, because this was 2000, and by then it was well-known that armour didn't significantly slow you down. Also, can't it be both? Bad design/designer error and attempt at balance?D&D Simulationism Edition totally tried to play it off as verisimilitude.
As are armor check penalties.
Never ascribe to balance concerns what is absolutely designer error.
Gymnastics literally means "naked exercise" though.I kind of doubt most people (self included) could do better gymnastics buck naked.
If anything, the video suggests the AD&D movement penalties for "bulky" armor are misguided. Why is a guy in full plate moving at half speed?!?
I would say that 1e and 2e were also "Needless Complexity Editions", so really, it's a tradition...Whilst that is an amusing maxim, I'm not sure I buy it in this case, because this was 2000, and by then it was well-known that armour didn't significantly slow you down. Also, can't it be both? Bad design/designer error and attempt at balance?
3.XE was absolutely stuffed to the brim with stuff that they both intended as balancing measures, and which was bad design. I mean, I don't really re-litigate the whole of 3.XE here, but like, there was a LOT of it, tons of Feats, tons of weapons, tons of PrCs, and so on were just really badly designed whilst containing poorly-conceived stuff intending (and frequently failing) to make them balanced.
3E was "Simulationism Edition", but it was also "Needless Complexity Edition" and "D&D's First Baby Steps At Balance Edition" (which, ironically, ended up less balanced than 2E, I'd argue).
I guess on the gripping hand we have to factor in that Jonathan Tweet is kind of an, well, I think the word is "nitwit" to the point where he got involved with scientific racism and nonsensical cop-aganda and ended a man's whole career - his own. So maybe he did just believe some very dim things re: armour?
Gymnastics literally means "naked exercise" though.
I mean, that doesn't mean you're totally wrong, but I think you need pretty modern materials before one becomes wrong on that.
This is every non-Original books or Basic edition of the game prior to 5e, really.I would say that 1e and 2e were also "Needless Complexity Editions", so really, it's a tradition...
That's the thing I've been saying.So maybe he did just believe some very dim things re: armour?
Hey. Hey. My cousin was on the Olympic gymnastics team some years ago. I would rather we not.Gymnastics literally means "naked exercise" though.
Wasn't all exercise basically naked exercise back then?I mean, that doesn't mean you're totally wrong, but I think you need pretty modern materials before one becomes wrong on that.