<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=234223.msg11757510#msg11757510">Quote from: HopeFox on 25-10-2015, 06:36:36</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Yeah, the armour rules are weird. Personally, I would make the Light and Heavy Armour penalties stack, so that you increase the TN of Agility and Reflexes rolls by 5, and if the roll is Agility or Reflexes plus Athletics or Stealth, it's a total of 10.<br/><br/>What's weirder is that it doesn't affect movement speed at all - movement is simply based on a character's Water Ring. There's nothing about it making the wearer more tired, either.<br/><br/>I'm happy to be guided by the GM on this - if it is more customary to march in lighter or no armour and only to don armour when an engagement is expected, then Keitaro will do that.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Encumbrance just isn't addressed in the rules for flavor reasons.  As was pointed out, wearing heavy armor isn't really worse than carrying it.  I'll consider mechanical adjustments, but they will be small.  I would say that armor wear on the trail is (surprise) open to debate.  Keitaro, IC, kind of explained it.  There are 3 bushi and only 2 shugenja.  With no yojimbos specifically assigned, all 3 bushi are responsible for protecting the shugenja along the road, so it is not inappropriate to wear armor.  However, heavy is a bit much for travel, despite a lack of rules addressing it.<br/><br/>For Kotone, wearing armor is more of the gray area.  There are bushi to protect her, but none specifically appointed, and she had to travel some distance without a yojimbo.  There is no dishonor in her having brought armor for that reason, but now the situation is less clear.