[split] Quick questions

[Reece]

The def stat doesn't help you block. It's a measure of how much you can take. Wearing armor to express your high def is not the same as armor appearing out of no where to help block attacks. The major difference being that in one scenario you are taking the hit and the other you are blocking it. Make sense?

Yeah, I see now. So is it possible to have your character be weaker than their DEF suggests? Like if I was making a mage who specialised in summoning shields, but without one was still supposed to be just an ordinary person, could I choose to have his DEF treated as being only 1 whenever he was hit directly, but still count as its full value for the purposes of using defensive moves?