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Originally Posted by EroGaki

I hope you offered the players the same option of rolling for defense, because I have to tell you, nothing irks me more than when a DM decides to make things "dynamic" for the npc's and monsters, but not the PC's.

Certainly.

Though all the players in my 3.5E game largely declined. A few mentioned they didn't like the fact that they could roll under a 10 on the d20 for their defense roll, which effectively made them more vulnerable to being hit for that particular attack. This was especially the case for players who had a "reputation" for rolling low.

Nevertheless, I told all the players that if they wanted to do a defense roll when they're being attacked, they had to tell me right away before I rolled any damage. If they chose the option of doing a "defense roll", my rule was that their defense roll will overrule their static AC for that particular monster/badguy attacking them that round. If the defense roll was lower than their static AC, they had to accept the lower AC. (Too bad). For the next round, they can use their static AC again or do another defense roll, if they get attacked again.

The players who did ask a few times out of the blue to do a defense roll, it turned out they ended up having a bad streak of rolling too many low numbers on the d20 for their defense rolls, for which they were hit more often. They decided it wasn't worth the gamble, and went back to using their static AC.