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<blockquote data-quote="Gadget" data-source="post: 6782679" data-attributes="member: 23716"><p>I agree, but others (as demonstrated by this thread and others) do not. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The spell <em>is</em> poorly worded, as it makes no sense when interacting with non-armor portions of AC. Why wouldn't dex bonus stack with <em>barkskin</em>? Why wouldn't picking up a shield after casting the spell increase the target's AC further? And most tellingly, why wouldn't getting behind cover stack with this? I can sort see reasons for this from a game balance perspective, but it makes it really hard to wrap your head around from an in world perspective and I am by no means a hard core stimulationist. To complicate matters further, one of the devs stated on twitter back in the day that he would certainly allow <em>Barkskin</em> and using a shield to stack, though I don't believe this is an 'official' Sage ruling. </p><p></p><p><strong>"the target’s AC can’t be less than 16, regardless of what kind of <em>armor</em> it is wearing."</strong></p><p></p><p>The reference to armor in the quote could very easily be interpreted as replacing the armor component of AC if less than 16 and leaving the other AC components alone. They would have been far better off taking a page from <em>Mage Armor</em> and set the target's base AC to X+ Dex bonus and noting that it does not stack with armor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gadget, post: 6782679, member: 23716"] I agree, but others (as demonstrated by this thread and others) do not. The spell [I]is[/I] poorly worded, as it makes no sense when interacting with non-armor portions of AC. Why wouldn't dex bonus stack with [I]barkskin[/I]? Why wouldn't picking up a shield after casting the spell increase the target's AC further? And most tellingly, why wouldn't getting behind cover stack with this? I can sort see reasons for this from a game balance perspective, but it makes it really hard to wrap your head around from an in world perspective and I am by no means a hard core stimulationist. To complicate matters further, one of the devs stated on twitter back in the day that he would certainly allow [I]Barkskin[/I] and using a shield to stack, though I don't believe this is an 'official' Sage ruling. [B]"the target’s AC can’t be less than 16, regardless of what kind of [I]armor[/I] it is wearing."[/B] The reference to armor in the quote could very easily be interpreted as replacing the armor component of AC if less than 16 and leaving the other AC components alone. They would have been far better off taking a page from [I]Mage Armor[/I] and set the target's base AC to X+ Dex bonus and noting that it does not stack with armor. [/QUOTE]
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