Armor check penalties for armor and load should not stack

[phantomwhale]

It's me, your favorite beta tester, again !

Just noticed by character with STR 11 had a climb skill of -6. Note that I have no invested any ranks in the climb skill. Confused why it was so bad I checked his encumbrance (medium load) and his armor, which was Hide+1 (check penalty -2) and a heavy wooden shield+1 (check penalty -1).

So both load and armor have an armor check penalty of -3 each. However, these penalties should not stack:

Quote from SRD

If your character is wearing armor, use the worse figure (from armor or from load) for each category. Do not stack the penalties.

So my character should have a climb skill of -3 (until he can shed some load AND some armor !)

 

[rob]

At 05:02 AM 2/3/2007, you wrote:

So both load and armor have an armor check penalty of -3 each. However, these penalties should not stack:

Quote from SRD
Quote:
If your character is wearing armor, use the worse figure (from armor or from load) for each category. Do not stack the penalties.

Oops. It shall be fixed.