medium and heavy armor requiring extra strenght to wear?

[Moonbane]

Been looking into it as i heard theres a min of strenght needed. But cant see anything on the items. For example was thinking of downgrading caster Shadowheart to 8 strenght, or is it a mistake?

[L.Slinger]

There are no strength requirements for armor.

[Kernest]

Originally posted by L.Slinger:

There are no strength requirements for armor.

... In BG3.

The STR requirement rule is in regular DnD 5e rules, which is where OP may have heard it from.

[Moonbane]

Originally posted by Kernest:

Originally posted by L.Slinger:

There are no strength requirements for armor.

... In BG3.

The STR requirement rule is in regular DnD 5e rules, which is where OP may have heard it from.

Ah! That explains it. I dont see a reason for a life or light cleric to get into melee range.

[Moonbane]

On another question for armor. I see builds regularilly hitting 16dex for medium armor users, even if the max ac bonus they can get is two. Missing out on one. I asume they go 16dex mainly for increased initiative?

[Kernest]

Originally posted by Moonbane:

On another question for armor. I see builds regularilly hitting 16dex for medium armor users, even if the max ac bonus they can get is two. Missing out on one. I asume they go 16dex mainly for increased initiative?

There is a "Medium armour master" feat, that boosts the max AC bonus to +3.

Also, if they have 16 dex, I'd assume this is their main weapon stat, so more damage and more likely to hit, the higher it is.

[Xiwang]

that its because at difference of the tabletop someone is tracking the weight you carry, heavy armor IS HEAVY AF. so if you have a character with heavy armor you will carry less barrels, less situational equipment, less consumables. etc.

hell i wish they added the freaking ammunition tracking to weapons, that would balance all ranged classes, i mean im playing a throw expert and i always need to have a lot of spears as heavy as i can find them.

i made auntie ethel rich by buying as much giant hill strenght elixirs as i can buy, even using lvl up inventory reset exploits.

[zacharyb]

Originally posted by Kernest:

Originally posted by Moonbane:

On another question for armor. I see builds regularilly hitting 16dex for medium armor users, even if the max ac bonus they can get is two. Missing out on one. I asume they go 16dex mainly for increased initiative?

There is a "Medium armour master" feat, that boosts the max AC bonus to +3.

Also, if they have 16 dex, I'd assume this is their main weapon stat, so more damage and more likely to hit, the higher it is.

Also there are multiple medium armors in the game that give you whatever your dex modifier is, even if it's over 2.

[Ekelak]

14 = 2 Dext (two point missing)

[YumboYack]

Any race, any class, any skill, any anything can be done by anyone... as, you know, DnD style. That is how there can be only 4 characters in a group.