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#1 Helaman Dec 06, 2014 19:38:14	I'm all but ready to release house rules on armour because the current rules just don't seem right.   Breastplates at AC 14 and half plate as a medium armour? Studded leather and hide armour sharing the same AC?   Some of the Str requirements seem arbitary and off too.   Anyone else having this feeling?
#2 Helaman Dec 06, 2014 19:44:33	This table replaces that found on Pg 145 of the PHB
#3 ankiyavon Dec 06, 2014 19:43:04	Armor is basically cosmetic in 5E.  You select the armor that is appropriate for your class and stats, and then you get roughly the same AC regardless of what you picked.   Which is not really a choice I'm a big fan of, but it's what they went with.
#4 MonsterEnvy Dec 06, 2014 19:47:53	Helaman wrote:
#5 Eric888 Dec 06, 2014 23:44:59	Okay, lets hit these one at a time.   Medium armor is armor halfway between light and heavy. Half-plate covers half your body. Seems to add up.   Light and medium armor has 1 less AC than heavy armor with dex cap. Breastplate, with the +2 dex cap, is one less than splint, the second best of the heavy armors. It is abberationally expensive because there is no stealth penalty. You can get the same AC for 1/8 the price with scale if you don't want that little boon.   If heavy armor did not have a strength requirement, all tanks would go dex with a rapier. Heavys are supposed to be strength builds. The numbers are high enough to not be brushed aside, but not too high so clerics can still use them. Chain is a little lower to give clerics a real choice and not be all cookie cutter builds.   They were not trying to make hide v studded leather a compelling choice for PCs. Hide and padded are not real armor choices. For that matter, neither is leather or ring mail really. They are there for NPCs and monsters, not PCs. Berserkers are dime store barbarians, so they only get hide. Goblins are canon fodder, so they get leather. Your PC has money and a family who loves him, so he gets Studded Leather, Scale Mail, or Chain.
#6 Zardnaar Dec 07, 2014 1:08:18	Yeah armor is a little off. Medium armor more or less sucks due to MAD so light or heavy is the way you want to go. Medium armor works on a light cleric thats about it.
#7 Eric888 Dec 07, 2014 3:06:43	Zardnaar wrote:
#8 DLfan Dec 07, 2014 5:32:23	Armor is fine. The designers wanted heavy armor not to be bypassed by high stats so unless you are a 20th level  barbarian or a monk or barb that has found a magical tome you won't beat out a normal man in plate & shield.  Armor works as intended even if no real traveling adventurer would be walking around in plate armor.  Light armor is candy wrapping for monsters. Medium armor is ok but heavy armor is the best unless you are concerned about stealth.
#9 Kalani Dec 07, 2014 7:46:09	DLfan wrote:
#10 DLfan Dec 07, 2014 8:39:56	Kalani wrote:
#11 colemcm Dec 07, 2014 15:02:16	Eric888 wrote:
#12 Azzy1974 Dec 07, 2014 17:46:24	Helaman wrote:
#42 bonethug0108 Dec 08, 2014 18:05:57	As I said, it was more of looking at it from the game side. And then I was thinking in broad terms instead of region specific, etc. I was just wondering if it was a mistake or intentional more than anything, and now it's been explained.
#43 Saelorn Dec 08, 2014 22:37:16	Azzy1974 wrote: