Is there a PD penalty for armor? I can't remember, but this discussion leads me to believe it doesn't.
In many games armor adds to your defense as an analog to damage reduction. In ED it actually reduces damage. Makes sense to me that a guy in full plate would be easier to hit than a guy in leather.
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Only penalty for armor is initiative. The more( heavier) you have the slower in combat you become.
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It's pointless. I mean discussion. There are more factors to consider, not only ADH matter here.
Many talents will be Simple Actions (like Maneuver), we will get Spot Armor Flow earlier, Archers can add Flame Arrow Rank to Damage Tests, Obsidimen even with low Dex still have powerful blows because of their strenght - one word - adpets gonna make more damge.
Slowing down the combat? I don't think so. Maybe few more rolls per round but if you now can perform in one round actions you needed two in any earlier editions (like mentioned Maneuver - 1st round, attack - 2nd round) where you found the slowing down?
And for me the best armor is Blood Pebble 5/3 -1 Initiative, low cost - nothing beats it. Thread, forged version of it if available. Plus Espagra Cloak (3/1, -1 for second armor - [to devs: ] you should give some reason to make forbidden forging it and add more cloaks to items available to buy, cloaks should give similiar bonus as shields, don't you think?) and Crystal Buckler (1/1, 0) - perfect for Archers and other fighters with two-handed weapons.
More important thing than ADH is rule from 3ed - minimum Step number damage on Good Success that give you needed force to defeat opponent.
Personally I prefer bonus +2 per Success Level as many opponents have no armor or shield and then reaching ADH gives you NOTHING as there is no armor or shield to defeat.
Well, it looks a little unbalanced against creatures or Horrors with Armors ~20 but I count on some updates to their stats.
Making Extraordinary Success against 16 will need 31 (what is pretty easy to Archer even on 3ed Success Table - 33 roll needed) that gives +6 damage bonus, but process of killing creature with 26 armor seems to look really bad. Or typical Hydra with PD 10 (easy to defeat in 3ed) but Armor 25 - how to kill it on new rules?!
Many talents will be Simple Actions (like Maneuver), we will get Spot Armor Flow earlier, Archers can add Flame Arrow Rank to Damage Tests, Obsidimen even with low Dex still have powerful blows because of their strenght - one word - adpets gonna make more damge.
Slowing down the combat? I don't think so. Maybe few more rolls per round but if you now can perform in one round actions you needed two in any earlier editions (like mentioned Maneuver - 1st round, attack - 2nd round) where you found the slowing down?
And for me the best armor is Blood Pebble 5/3 -1 Initiative, low cost - nothing beats it. Thread, forged version of it if available. Plus Espagra Cloak (3/1, -1 for second armor - [to devs: ] you should give some reason to make forbidden forging it and add more cloaks to items available to buy, cloaks should give similiar bonus as shields, don't you think?) and Crystal Buckler (1/1, 0) - perfect for Archers and other fighters with two-handed weapons.
More important thing than ADH is rule from 3ed - minimum Step number damage on Good Success that give you needed force to defeat opponent.
Personally I prefer bonus +2 per Success Level as many opponents have no armor or shield and then reaching ADH gives you NOTHING as there is no armor or shield to defeat.
Well, it looks a little unbalanced against creatures or Horrors with Armors ~20 but I count on some updates to their stats.
Making Extraordinary Success against 16 will need 31 (what is pretty easy to Archer even on 3ed Success Table - 33 roll needed) that gives +6 damage bonus, but process of killing creature with 26 armor seems to look really bad. Or typical Hydra with PD 10 (easy to defeat in 3ed) but Armor 25 - how to kill it on new rules?!
Re: A new Developer's Blog? Why yes!
Espagra scale cloaks can no longer be stacked with other armor.
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