Exar Kun

[Redmen]

Exar kun was a sith right so why cant you use his armor with some force powers

[jim[beam]]

I concur, same with Darth Bandon or the Droma armor in KOTOR1, they were able to use the armor and still have access to the force.

 

I would like to know the background story of it..

 

-jim

[Orchomene]

You have access to the force, you are just limited to use only force powers that allow the use of armors

 

Else, you can imagine that those armors are specifically made for the guy it's named from. Hence, these armors are not so practical for you and then does not allow all force powers to be used. just some speculations.

[DSLuke]

The whole concept of not being able to use some force powers when in armor is stupid.

It makes no logical sense, but it may be there for simple gameplay reasons.

 

A Jedi with armor would be much too powerful (as if Jedi aren't already powerful enough)

[Kissamies]

The PnP RPG has a much better way to discourage the jedi (and many other classes) wearing armor, especially at high levels. I guess Bioware wanted to make the game more equipment based, but they could still have kept some form of the original system for the jedi instead of the silly force power restriction.