Originally Posted by
GeneralVryth
You guys are still dancing around shields, which in practice are likely to be the bigger problem. Also, class specific proficiencies are just destined to get messy.
Besides adding/increasing strength requirements, if don't want to change classes much I like the idea suggested earlier in the thread of just breaking Medium and Heavy Prof into a Simple and Complex (or Martial) option. All of the racial traits that give armor profs become simple martial profs. All class features that give them also become simple. And then when you get to level X (5?) in a class that gave a simple Medium/heavy Prof, you get the complex version. Still need to deal with Shields though.