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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5943031" data-attributes="member: 58197">Pet peeve of mine, but since when is &quot;wearing armor&quot; a major skill?Armor is designed to make it easy to move and fight. There is no special talent required to make it not fall off your body*. It just sits there. If you can carry a 50-pound backpack and suffer no penalty, it's ridiculous to give you a penalty for wearing 50 pounds of armor--the backpack is a much greater hindrance than the armor is. Just like arcane spell failure, armor proficiency is a kludge that has nothing to do with verisimilitude. Its sole purpose is to hoke up an excuse for why characters with plenty of cash and access to full plate should ever wear lesser armor.I'm sure there are tricks and techniques to maximize the effectiveness of armor, but if you don't know those techniques, the only penalty should be that the armor isn't quite as good for your AC as it would otherwise be, maybe 1-2 points' worth. Full plate should still be miles better than mail or leather.[SIZE=-2]*Putting the armor on and buckling all the straps correctly can be a pain, but nothing that can't be solved by the party fighter rolling her eyes and showing the wizard what goes where.[/SIZE]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5943031, member: 58197"] Pet peeve of mine, but since when is "wearing armor" a major skill? Armor is designed to make it easy to move and fight. There is no special talent required to make it not fall off your body*. It just sits there. If you can carry a 50-pound backpack and suffer no penalty, it's ridiculous to give you a penalty for wearing 50 pounds of armor--the backpack is a much greater hindrance than the armor is. Just like arcane spell failure, armor proficiency is a kludge that has nothing to do with verisimilitude. Its sole purpose is to hoke up an excuse for why characters with plenty of cash and access to full plate should ever wear lesser armor. I'm sure there are tricks and techniques to maximize the effectiveness of armor, but if you don't know those techniques, the only penalty should be that the armor isn't quite as good for your AC as it would otherwise be, maybe 1-2 points' worth. Full plate should still be miles better than mail or leather. [SIZE=-2]*Putting the armor on and buckling all the straps correctly can be a pain, but nothing that can't be solved by the party fighter rolling her eyes and showing the wizard what goes where.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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