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Joined: Monday, 31st January 2011, 23:19
DEX
So... I'm just going to toss this idea out there: DEX could reduce stealth and casting penalties from armour while STR could reduce attack penalties. If it's significant enough heavy armor casters would chose to pump DEX instead of INT and pumping INT would no longer be a no brainer. Now at the moment pumping STR on a caster past 8 or 9 isn't worth it so replacing the need for STR with DEX doesn't really change anything. I really think lowering the evasion penalty on some armor would solve this issue. I'm not saying we should have casters running around in storm/gold dragon armour but what if plate mail had, say, a -4 penalty? Keep in mind they'd have much less INT if they chose to pump DEX so it's not really a buff.
Another idea that came to mind would be to have 3x the evasion penalty simply remove ALL armour penalties for stealth and casting or just have the penalties not as harsh. This way fighters will still work up to higher tiers of armour instead of just tossing on the heaviest thing they find.