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SangoProduction
2022-01-17, 02:10 AM
Let's say you've got a regular dwarf with 20ft move speed.
But he's some anti-optimizing fool who took the run feat, so that he can run x5 speed.
And then he even more foolishly puts himself in the heaviest armor he can wear.

Dwarf's (Slow and Steady) trait says "but their speed is never modified by armor."
So, clearly the modification to how quickly he can run due to armor is nulled by the trait, and he can run 100 ft.
Or, he can only run 80 ft because while the speed is not modified, it says nothing about running's multiplier, which is dependent on armor status. So the speed is unmodified at 20. But running is modified.

Esquire
2022-01-17, 08:28 AM
I say it's 100 feet - dwarves are natural sprinters, after all. Very dangerous over short distances.

Biggus
2022-01-17, 11:38 AM
I'd say 5x, because what the Run feat does (while it doesn't say so in so many words) is increase your run speed multiplier by 1. It still does that for everyone else in heavy armor, so I don't see why it wouldn't do so for a dwarf.

The only exception to this (given that you mentioned "the heaviest armor he can wear") would be Mountain Plate (RoS p.157) as you can't run in it, and it specifies "a dwarf’s speed is reduced as if he were not a dwarf".

TotallyNotEvil
2022-01-17, 06:15 PM
I say it's 100 feet - dwarves are natural sprinters, after all. Very dangerous over short distances.

Can't argue with that.

Warrnan
2022-01-18, 03:50 PM
I say it's 100 feet - dwarves are natural sprinters, after all. Very dangerous over short distances.

Little known fact. LOTR is RAW. 😂

Particle_Man
2022-01-19, 01:32 AM
They are not bad tumblers in heavy armor either. :smallsmile:

SangoProduction
2022-01-19, 08:30 AM
They are not bad tumblers in heavy armor either. :smallsmile:

It's called falling. With style. And dignity.
Anyone saying otherwise will need to talk to my axe.

PraxisVetli
2022-01-19, 09:00 AM
African or European Dwarf?

Darg
2022-01-19, 10:33 PM
African or European Dwarf?

Pacific islander pigmy dwarf.

Elkad
2022-01-20, 01:09 PM
Little known fact. LOTR is RAW. 😂

Movie or book? Because they directly contradict one another, including in this case.