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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 5969724" data-attributes="member: 5889">Whenever a see an Armor as DR thread, my immediate question is....why?What is fundamentally lacking in the AC system that we need to move to a DR system instead?One thing I hear commonly mentioned is to better model that armor is better is against light weapons than big ones...but that is exactly what Dnd DOES NOT want to do.Dnd is a game where wolf claws, giant clubs, rogue daggers, and bastard swords all have to live in the same world and they all have to have good effectiveness in order to promote many different archetypes.AC provides a great way to do this, because all weapons get the same treatment (meaning different weapons are useful), while at the same time AC never loses benefit against different weapons so armor is always useful.The AC system imo, works. Its clean, simple, still models that better armor means you can take more punishment.</blockquote>