I understand having to purposely miscategorize it as Light Armor to make it work.
However, as it is not actual armor, it should not be able to penalize those nonproficient in Light Armor while it's worn.
At the moment, it does.
Elven Chain is able to bypass the issue, albiet as a magic item. Perhaps the way it was coded for it's effect of "You are considered proficient in Elven Chain even if not proficient in Medium Armor" could aid in making it so Pride Silk cannot cause the nonproficient penalties it should be incapable of causing?
Short Version: Pride Silk Outfit isn't armor, but is treated as Light Armor by Beyond so the AC Calculation applies right; this makes it cause characters not proficient in Light Armor to suffer nonproficiency penalties, which it shouldn't.
Elven Chain uses "Proficiency - Self" as a modifier. I copied that into a magic item I was creating based on Pride Silk Outfit, and it took away the disadvantage. Thanks for directing me to Elven Chain, as that solved my issue.
I'm guessing the config for Pride Silk Outfit is just missing that modifier, and noone at DNDBeyond has bothered to fix it yet. You could copy it into a HomeBrew item and add the modifier to work around the issue in your campaign.
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Pride Silk Outfit is a non-armor that gives an AC Calculation.
I understand having to purposely miscategorize it as Light Armor to make it work.
However, as it is not actual armor, it should not be able to penalize those nonproficient in Light Armor while it's worn.
At the moment, it does.
Elven Chain is able to bypass the issue, albiet as a magic item. Perhaps the way it was coded for it's effect of "You are considered proficient in Elven Chain even if not proficient in Medium Armor" could aid in making it so Pride Silk cannot cause the nonproficient penalties it should be incapable of causing?
Short Version: Pride Silk Outfit isn't armor, but is treated as Light Armor by Beyond so the AC Calculation applies right; this makes it cause characters not proficient in Light Armor to suffer nonproficiency penalties, which it shouldn't.
All me Hombews:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WUnYn1tRvbkKOPpAkWOVlpe2S3JVLpV_LDOVzKG2DgQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
A couple notes:
Sage Advice Link supporting that Pride Silk Outfit is not Armor:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sageadvice.eu/2020/06/15/is-the-pride-silk-outfit-actually-armor-as-in-you-need-light-armor-proficiency-to-wear-it/amp/
Excerpt from item description supporting same:
"If you aren’t wearing armor, your base Armor Class is..."
If it were armor, you couldn't use it and also not have armor on.
Just felt like there coulda been some confusion about that, wanted to explain before it happened.
All me Hombews:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WUnYn1tRvbkKOPpAkWOVlpe2S3JVLpV_LDOVzKG2DgQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
Elven Chain uses "Proficiency - Self" as a modifier. I copied that into a magic item I was creating based on Pride Silk Outfit, and it took away the disadvantage. Thanks for directing me to Elven Chain, as that solved my issue.
I'm guessing the config for Pride Silk Outfit is just missing that modifier, and noone at DNDBeyond has bothered to fix it yet. You could copy it into a HomeBrew item and add the modifier to work around the issue in your campaign.