Which optional rules do you use for muscle-powered weapons and armors?

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

You will note from the above example that with combat normalized for users of both armor and shields, combat without these aids worked very, very poorly.

It was a bit shaky, yes. Fencing combat worked very well, a bit too well.

4e combat works fine for unarmoured people with knives. Our information about people spending hours at a time fighting in underground passages wearing heavy armour is a bit limited.