Just a quick thing. I was making a new character a Variant Tiefling Twilight domain cleric. The class comes with proficiencies to light armor, medium armor, and shields.
So I chose scale mail as my armor, which is medium armor, but when I open my character sheet i saw that my stealth rolls were at a disadvantage. Why is that?
Generally the metal armours, at least the ones that are multiple pieces of metal, are considered noisy and cumbersome. A suit of Scale Mail is 45lbs of metal, after all.
It's probably meant to balance the low cost and good AC vs the other non-metal medium armour types otherwise every stealth character would be sporting Scale. The breasplate offer the same AC benefit, is less than 1/2 the weight of Scale at 20lbs, and doesn't come with the same Disadvantage to the stealth check but at the hefty cost of 400gp.
Just a quick thing. I was making a new character a Variant Tiefling Twilight domain cleric. The class comes with proficiencies to light armor, medium armor, and shields.
So I chose scale mail as my armor, which is medium armor, but when I open my character sheet i saw that my stealth rolls were at a disadvantage. Why is that?
Not all medium armour is crafted the same.
Generally the metal armours, at least the ones that are multiple pieces of metal, are considered noisy and cumbersome. A suit of Scale Mail is 45lbs of metal, after all.
It's probably meant to balance the low cost and good AC vs the other non-metal medium armour types otherwise every stealth character would be sporting Scale. The breasplate offer the same AC benefit, is less than 1/2 the weight of Scale at 20lbs, and doesn't come with the same Disadvantage to the stealth check but at the hefty cost of 400gp.
If you're wearing Half-Plate or Scale Mail, those impose disadvantage on stealth checks
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Ah I see! Thanks so much!