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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2431296" data-attributes="member: 31734">Well, obviously the armor only has a max Dex bonus because it can't possibly deal with a max cabbage bonus from some third party source developed years later.  So, the question must focus on the description of the Stone Warden extraordinary ability.  The only relevant sentence that explains the ability is: "He adds his Constitution bonus to AC instead of his Dexterity, if the character's Constitution bonus is higher."  So, if the Con bonus is not limited, you get the odd case when, say, the Dex bonus is equal or higher but the character is wearing full plate.  Say, the Dex is 16 and the Con is 14, and he's wearing full plate (no other AC bonuses).  His AC is 19 (because he uses the Dex bonus, which is limited).  Give him 3 points of Dex drain, however, and now his AC is 20 (because he uses the Con bonus).  It gets even odder when you consider the case where he has a Dex of 10 and a Con of 14 and he gets hit with a cat's grace spell.  That cat's grace spell drops his AC by 1 point (2 points if was wearing half-plate for example). It's ambiguous, yes, but I'd rule it such that the Con bonus works equivalently to the Dex bonus in all cases, that way, you don't even have to worry about the case where the two bonuses are identical.</blockquote>