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| - | So why wear armor? Simple: armor lets you reduce damage from attacks. A heavy suit of platemail might encumber you, but it also makes it much harder for the dragon to kill you with a bite. The first X points of damage from an attack (excepting attacks that ignore armor) are converted to nonlethal, where X equals the armor bonus of the armor in question. See [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/damageConversion.htm|Armor as Damage Conversion on d20srd]] for more information. These two rules combine - so a character with a high defense bonus may still wear leather armor to get the damage conversion even though the armor bonus doesn't matter. | + | So why wear armor? Simple: armor lets you reduce damage from attacks. A heavy suit of platemail might encumber you, but it also makes it much harder for the dragon to kill you with a bite. |
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| + | The first X points of damage from an attack (excepting attacks that ignore armor) are converted to nonlethal, where X equals the armor bonus of the armor in question. See [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/damageConversion.htm|Armor as Damage Conversion on d20srd]] for more information. These two rules combine - so a character with a high defense bonus may still wear leather armor to get the damage conversion even though the armor bonus doesn't matter. Bonus damage added to an attack, such as from critical hits, sneak attacks, electrical shocks, etc, ignores this damage conversion. | ||
| Some quick numbers: | Some quick numbers: | ||
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