armor use

[Strem]

is the armor use special abilitiy necessary if so what does it do?

[Strem]

Anyone? im next to a teacher now

[Not Anonymous]

lowers your encumbrance by one.

[Not Anonymous]

it even says so in the description...

[Strem]

Originally posted by Not Darknonymous Souls II:

it even says so in the description...

sorry if this might be a dumb question but wha does encumbrance do?

[Rannell]

Emcumbrance is a huge disadvantage. It gives negative stats in almost every category. On the top right there is a rules icon you can click on. Scroll down until you get to encumbrance and you can see the negative effects depending on how much encumbrance you have.

[Azunai]

in short - you want to avoid encumbrance since it reduces the dodge, initiative and movement rate of the character by 1 for each encumbrance and it reduces attack and parry by 1 for each 2 encumbrance (attack at even values, parry at odd values - or vice versa- don't remember exactly).

as an example - you decide to put naurim in a set of heavy plate armor that shows 8 encumbrance. as a result, he now has -8 dodge (i.e basically no dodge chance worth mentioning), -8 initiative (i.e. he always moves last after everyone else took their turn) -8 move (i.e. he crawls at a snails pace) and -4 attack and -3 parry (or -3att-4 parry?) - i.e he will have trouble hitting the broad side of a barn and his parry is borderline worthless.

with armor use traits, you can wear some armor without the negative consequences. you'll still get significant penalties in heavy plate items, but with all 3 armor traits, you can use the medium armor sets (bosparan/kulisk armor) with 0 encumbrance.