Armor Proficiency?

[Rusharn]

I do play with armor damage rules. This makes custom armor expensive to keep in repair more so if it is destroyed and is a consideration the players have to keep in mind when they decide to use custom armor. Plus the time it takes to repair armor means their favorite suit may not be available for a mission.

This usually leads my players having two or three suits of armor in Star Wars. The armored jumps suits and lighter 'cloth' armors for causal walking around or when they are going to be doing things that require dex. A back up battle armor for when their main or custom armor is out of action or destroyed, and then their main armor often customized that they use for heavy action.

[Volar the Healer]

Having actually trained in armour, both medieval and modern, I would say no.

I cannot imagine a situation where I would be better using my weapons, either sword or rifle, while wearing armour than I would be without wearing armour.

I like the game penalties for wearing armour, and think they're close to real life. I would allow skills for armour mounted weapons (wrist laser, rocket, jet pack, etc) seperate from hand held weapons, but not as specialties. And I would allow bonuses for armour mounted sensors. I also allow my characters to spend character points on "armour" to remove these penalties as they slowly get used to wearing armour over a period of time, but that's about it.
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[MrNexx]

[Tinman]

I just went down the master skills list and tried to imagine "in armor" as a specialization for various ones. I recommend doing this strictly for humor value. My favorites were Etiquette (in armor,) Home Economics (in armor) and Traffic Control Procedures (in armor.)

Dancing (in armor) and Swimming (in armor) are just a little too obvious.

[MrNexx]

[Volar the Healer]

[MrNexx]

[Volar the Healer]

[garhkal]

Bringing this back up, cause Whill forgot it existed...

So how do You handle pcs buying off armor dex penalties?
A) they can't do it
B) it costs XYZ # of CP per pip
C) It costs money, like as in when modifying the armor
D) something else

When they do so, does it
A) exist for that suit of armor only
B) all suits of that specific type of armor
C) other.
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[Mamatried]

Wear the armor enough and viola no more penalties, or reduced ones.

It is stated that at least for stormies, they get used to the armor and thus get less penalties from it

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

[Naaman]

If I were to do this, it would be limited. Also, I feel that the penalty should not be to the Dexterity attribute, but rather to all skills that represent the wearer's ability to move/manouver. Therefore, the penalties would apply to dodge, running, climb/jump, and double (or more) the penalty to swimming.

The most I would likely allow is to buy off 1D of penalties. The cost would be per pip, it would increase with each pip. So it might be 5 cp for the first pip, an additional 10 cp for the second, an an additional 20 cp for the third, for a total of 35 cp, but no more than one pip per month of training/practice, etc.

[Naaman]

Oh yeah:

And the buy off would apply to all armor. A custom suit of armor could be had for additional cost, and this could further reduce the penalty by 1 or 2 pips, depending on the quality of customization.

[garhkal]

[CRMcNeill]

I’d do something similar to Naaman, but since this option is seen exclusively (in the RAW, at least) in somewhat advanced NPCs, I’d make the initial buy-in relatively low, say 2-3 cp per point of penalty reduction, or 12-18 for a full 1D of reduction (good enough for stormtrooper armor).
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