Paralyzed condition

[Brain]

Hi,

I have just finished reading the list of conditions. There a few oddities here.

Paralyze: It says you're frozen. But you only get the flat footed condition and you can't act. That is only -2 AC. You don't even lose your dexterity modifier to AC. How is it reasonable if you can't move? Not to mention that you also keep your proficiency modifier to the AC, which causes the following weird scenario:

There are two paralyzed frozen characters next to eachother. None of them moves a bit or wear any armor or magic items. But you can easily hit the first one because he is clumsy low level wizard. But the other is untouchable because he is a high level dexteritious thief.

Same goes for the unconscious and asleep conditions. Except the AC penalty is -4 instead of -2.

That doesn't feel right.

[Gothhog]

Brain wrote:

Hi,

I have just finished reading the list of conditions. There a few oddities here.

Paralyze: It says you're frozen. But you only get the flat footed condition and you can't act. That is only -2 AC. You don't even lose your dexterity modifier to AC. How is it reasonable if you can't move? Not to mention that you also keep your proficiency modifier to the AC, which causes the following weird scenario:

There are two paralyzed frozen characters next to eachother. None of them moves a bit or wear any armor or magic items. But you can easily hit the first one because he is clumsy low level wizard. But the other is untouchable because he is a high level dexteritious thief.

Same goes for the unconscious and asleep conditions. Except the AC penalty is -4 instead of -2.

That doesn't feel right.

I Agree, I will not allow Dex bonus to someone who's paralyzed, asleep or unconscious.

Or perhaps increase the degree of success by one step, it should be a real feat of incompetence to fail to hurt a paralyzed, sleeping or otherwise unconscious target.