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Quote from the book pg. 175 section Item Damage subsection Broken:

"broken armor is an exception. It still grants its item bonuses, but ..."

How in the heck does armor get broken if it does not take DENTS?

If it does not function as an item that takes damage then why have a call out "Materials" on pg. 177 and a hardness guide on pg. 354

If shields can take dents so can armor. You are going to have to address this.

Any other way would be inconsistent game mechanics.

Page 372, corrosive rune.

But the point is : they can't keep track of this. They don't know what the item does.

It's like asking you what I have in my pocket while you never saw what's inside.

Oh, oh, I know this one! Pick me! Pick me!

(On a serious note, our GM has told us to jot down some piece of reference data for items we can't/don't want to identify at the moment)

Corradh wrote:

Claxon wrote:

Dekalinder wrote:

How about divorcing background from mechanics, and have everyone write the background they like, pick the stats that fit the character, and chose an appropriate lore and skill feat? Or that would be too much player empowerment?

That's essentially what I was suggesting.

I think the only thing that might need curating is what feats are available. And that would be as simple as making a list of feats that is felt to be appropriate as background feats from the list of feats.

It might be as simple as anything that doesn't have a level requirement on it, but I don't know all of the feats well enough to say if there is something that wouldn't be appropriate as a background feat.

I mean, is Fleet acceptable as a background feat?

I could see an argument where your background is that your an relay runner or sprinter, so gaining a speed bonus would be appropriate in my opinion. But I don't know if it's balanced or not.

Fleet is a general feat (the errata says the "skill" tag should be removed from it), backgrounds only give skill feats. It's also listed explicitly as a general feat in table 5-1 on page 160.

Yeah....I think only skill feats are too restrictive.

Like I said, a character whose background is as a runner probably out to be able to have it.

I can't say I'm terribly enthused by most of the background-provided skill feats either.

It does specify in the monk class preview blog:
"Further, they're untrained in armor, but get graceful expertise at 1st level, which gives them expert proficiency in unarmored defense (everybody else is only trained)."

http://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lkv3?Monk-Class-Preview