
Kitsune YMG |
I intensely dislike the flavor of ignoring arcane spell failure by armer type. I think it should be reduce spell failure by X%. This allows for armor from 3.5 books to be imported and allows for new armors/materials/enhancement's to be added to pathfinder w/o worry about whether the % spell failure is correct wrt armor type. It also means that a magus could wear heavier armor and take a smaller penalty.
e.g. a chain shirt is %20 IIRC. Full Plate is %50. A magus who can wear a chain shirt and have a %0 should not have a %50, he should have a %30.
I don't propose giving them medium/heavy proficiency earlier, or even at all; this is what feats are for. I just think a 1st level magus should be able to blow a feat on medium armor and suffer a reduced penalty instead of nothing or everything.