Plate armor, a shield, and the Steel Hide move can push a fighter up to 6 armor. What do you do about someone who stacks up armor, thinking they’ll become invincible? (Besides the obvious answer of running monsters with piercing, of course.)
Plate armor, a shield, and the Steel Hide move can push a fighter up to 6 armor.
Plate armor, a shield, and the Steel Hide move can push a fighter up to 6 armor.
Let them. Threaten their friends, their Bonds, their gear, their sanity.
Exactly.
Show them a downside to their equipment. I recommend a deep, water-filled pit.
Rust monsters.
Or the more punk-rock version. Crust monsters.
I would only add that a player choosing to armor up is, in part, signalling that they want opportunities to look good while sword blows bounce off their mighty armor. I’m all in favor of showing them the downside of their equipment or threatening them in non-armor-ish (?) ways, but balance those moments with awesome moments when their armor and toughness shine. Be a fan of the characters, right?
Reverse gravity.
I hate reverse gravity.
“But can you armor….your heart?” (dramatic music)
Another downside is the knight’s nightmare: being overturned like a turtle, and then the goblins / filthy commoners swarm atop you and hold you down and then someone with a dagger starts in on the cracks in your armor.
(But hell yeah to the be a fan too, I like to toss lots of cannon fodder at the softskins so the steel rhino can Defend like a boss and purchase wizardly affection with armor dents)
Yep, what David said too. They invested a lot of work in being awesomely armored, let them benefit from that… and, sometimes, make them work to keep it.
Look at down at the GM moves, look up and give your best evil GM smile.
Acid attacks.
A trip into the desert.
The infamous Animate Armour spell.
When orcs attack, their swords shatter against his armour, because that’s awesome.
When a magically animated flying sword attacks, it shatters against his armour, but the tiny fragments of shattered steel are still enchanted with a thirst for human blood, and some of them slip through his visor and inside his helmet. Because that’s also awesome.
(Okay, so insects would work too. But c’mon! Enchanted sword fragments!)
and multiclassing in other armor moves (like duelist’s parry and underdog), you can reach up to 8 armor without magic items!
Heat ’em up and then let the can opener monster come! Yummi, canned knight in his own juices.
Fire
Makes me think of the great scene in Terence Malick’s The New World where Colin Farrell gets ambushed in the swamp.