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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6357602" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>What traditional lore would that be? I'm drawing a blank here where wizards are more resistant to injury than anyone else. Can you point me somewhere?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I get taken to task pretty hard for even beginning to claim any sort of universality to my experience. I have to wonder why [MENTION=48965]Imaro[/MENTION] and [MENTION=44640]bill[/MENTION]91 and [MENTION=957]BryonD[/MENTION] aren't taking you to task for the same thing. Unarmored characters are not rare at all IME. The wizard for one almost never has any armour on. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Note that your idea is actually directly in contradiction to what the rules say. THere's absolutely nothing in the rules to support this. The idea that if I put on a suit of armour, all damage becomes bludgeoning is not found anywhere in the mechanics and this is 100% on you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Umm, I think you really need to do a bit more research into this if you think a bear's skin is anywhere near as strong as riveted steel mesh. You realise chain mail can actually stop bullets right? Not high power rifle rounds, true, but, subsonic? I'm pretty much going to stop subsonic rounds with chain mail. Will likely hurt like hell, but, it will stop the round. Bear skin will not stop bullets. Heck, it won't even stop arrows and it certainly won't stop axe hits.</p><p></p><p>If it did, why on earth would I bother with chain mail? Wouldn't it be a heck of a lot cheaper to use bear skins for armour if they were similar in effect?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 6357602, member: 22779"] What traditional lore would that be? I'm drawing a blank here where wizards are more resistant to injury than anyone else. Can you point me somewhere? I get taken to task pretty hard for even beginning to claim any sort of universality to my experience. I have to wonder why [MENTION=48965]Imaro[/MENTION] and [MENTION=44640]bill[/MENTION]91 and [MENTION=957]BryonD[/MENTION] aren't taking you to task for the same thing. Unarmored characters are not rare at all IME. The wizard for one almost never has any armour on. Note that your idea is actually directly in contradiction to what the rules say. THere's absolutely nothing in the rules to support this. The idea that if I put on a suit of armour, all damage becomes bludgeoning is not found anywhere in the mechanics and this is 100% on you. Umm, I think you really need to do a bit more research into this if you think a bear's skin is anywhere near as strong as riveted steel mesh. You realise chain mail can actually stop bullets right? Not high power rifle rounds, true, but, subsonic? I'm pretty much going to stop subsonic rounds with chain mail. Will likely hurt like hell, but, it will stop the round. Bear skin will not stop bullets. Heck, it won't even stop arrows and it certainly won't stop axe hits. If it did, why on earth would I bother with chain mail? Wouldn't it be a heck of a lot cheaper to use bear skins for armour if they were similar in effect? [/QUOTE]
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