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If I did a game I would give each character a list of weapons and items they could equip and use, but I wouldn't outright say "characters CAN'T equip certain items" unless there was some sort of physical reason why they couldn't. I'd instead have stuff like that, where a character who's trained to use swords would suffer a massive accuracy penalty if you gave them a gun (since they were crap at aiming), and trying to put armor on like a monk or wizard would just impede them and actually reduce their stats. So if it says a character can't equip a sword and you choose to give him one anyways, you should expect him to suffer a massive stat penalty from it :D


 
And yeah, I figure something like goo armor would be the opposite, where it would help be a buffer to deflect damage from goo creatures but a non-goo creature wears it and it just has low to zero defense XD

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If I did a game I would give each character a list of weapons and items they could equip and use, but I wouldn't outright say "characters CAN'T equip certain items" unless there was some sort of physical reason why they couldn't. I'd instead have stuff like that, where a character who's trained to use swords would suffer a massive accuracy penalty (since they were crap at aiming), and trying to put armor on like a monk or wizard would just impede them and actually reduce their stats. So if it says a character can't equip a sword and you choose to give him one anyways, you should expect him to suffer a massive stat penalty from it :D

And yeah, I figure something like goo armor would be the opposite, where it would help be a buffer to deflect damage from goo creatures but a non-goo creature wears it and it just has low to zero defense XD