Take the Regional Trait, or Combat Trait, Armor Master to reduce ACP by 1...
Buy Mithral Breastplate.
The end.
My "frontline rogue" is doing exactly this as soon as he can afford the Mithral Breastplate... taking Additional Traits as a feat to gain Armor Master.
No... Mithral Breastplate counts as light armor, via being made out of Mithral.
The Armor Master trait negates the last remaining ACP for not being proficient with medium armor.
Done deal.
You can access this as a Rogue with either a Regional Trait or a Combat Trait... both called Armor Master.
This is literally "my rogue is stuck on the front line" 101...
Pay money... transmute the pre-made armor into Mithral armor...
If you gave the Rogue heavy armor, much laughs, all around.
Mithral Breastplate has a +5 Dex... you can Rogue to your last desire with a 20 Dex...
There is no "Step 2"...
Slayer is exactly a rogue/ranger blend. It might work very nicely for what you are after.
Slayer doesn't get Endurance... still want a Mithral Breastplate. Lol.
Rule Zero, buddy.
GM Fiat to make it work.
Or don't, it's your choice...
Why is endurance an issue? OP said nothing about sleeping in the armor.
Make it count as light armor because you say so... done.
Who cares, honestly?
It is loot gear, make it fit however you want it to, wh!t th! f!ck?
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Take off some of the pieces to reduce it to a hide shirt, which is light?
Oh, side note PSA: the mods here do not like spelling that evades the profanity filter.
is it have to be hide because it's already made or because you can only get hide armor?
if the later then 'darkleaf cloth' (material) is the mithril equivalent to leather\hide made armors ;half weight, less acp, more dex ,count as lighter armor and decrease arcane spell failure.
usful for light armor such as leather\studded\Lamellar (leather) and for medium armor such as hide armor.it's also cheaper then mithril armor of the same category.
Darkleaf does not, in fact, change the category. Darkleaf hide is still medium.
Neither does the nimble armor mod.
Both still interesting, but not enough
Is that specific Hide armor so important ? Why ?
If it's a literal plot device, is it too late to say "I made a mistake, it's (studded) Leather, not Hide" ?
Or to allow it to be reworked, by a skilled artisan, into something lighter ? Make a sidequest out of it if needed ?
Can't that uniquely important, specific Hide armor have an equally unique magical property that allows it to be treated as light? It's not like it's any better than a chain shirt...
Hide is ... not exactly the greatest to begin with.
And I don't know of any way to treat it as light.
Admittedly, it's bad enough that there's never been a point in me trying. It's good enough for a low level druid, and that's about it.
Worse case, if that Hide is indeed that crazy vital to the campaign and inalterable, get rid of evasion.
Armor Dex limit applies only to AC calculation, and some archetypes can replace evasion. That and a feat tax for proficiency will help a bit.
Although that is not the easiest way to handle it.
Not sure why fighter/rogue is ok but slayer/rogue isn't, by the way. Accomplished Sneak Attacker takes a lot of the pain away, if SA progression is your main worry.
or just get bracers of armor...
I would like to hear the answer to why this particular set of hide is important?
The OP seems exceptionally resistant to not using this hide armor, but isn't providing a reason why. The most effective and easiest solution to the problem is mithral medium armor, the best of which is breastplate. You need something to reduce the armor check penalty, which is also pretty easy to get.
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The armor in question is already made (its medium HIDE),
Sell it.
Buy better armor.
The armor in question is already made (its medium HIDE),
Sell it.
Buy better armor.
This is pretty much what I'm getting at.
Why does OP need to keep hide armor?
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Why is hide armor medium anyways its identical to a chain shirt.
Druid armor tax - anything that doesn't cause a Druid to lose their class features is worse than other alternatives. Also the fact that armor types aren't balanced in any meaningful or rational way.
Slayer is exactly a rogue/ranger blend. It might work very nicely for what you are after.Its interesting, but the sneak attack is pushed back a bit too far for appeal, and the penultimate ability is Int-based (which the character in question will be looking at ~12 max by level 15+). Will add it to considerations though.
Just wanted to say that if you dip vivisectionist then take slayer, by RAW your sneak attack is the same as a rogue.
As you were :-D
Also the fact that armor types aren't balanced in any meaningful or rational way.
Nothing really is. There is no rhyme or reason to anything, no consistency to be found. It's a fantasy game, after all.
The longsword is the quintessential weapon of all of reality, ever, but it is a throwaway weapon in this game. The rapier gets all the love, for whatever reason... yet was only used by a small portion of the world, for an even smaller portion of history.
The Butcher's Axe is crafted specifically by Orc smiths but isn't a racial weapon for Orcs to use.
Fighter's don't have the skills to notice, identify, or close the distance to their targets. Lol.
The only thing that makes any sense is that Magic is terrifying and if you don't use it, you die by it.