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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moritheil" data-source="post: 3229783" data-attributes="member: 30610">Okay, this request shows effort and is more to my liking.You missed my statement in the other thread, but the way to powergame is not to go with conventional methods.  It makes sense: those are the ways WOTC has put the most effort into balancing, and consequently they are of little use if one wants to get anything really high.Armor: no one has broken down the force armor bonus.  There are only two well-known spells for getting force armor: mage armor and greater mage armor.  Mage armor is AC 4, and I have AC 6 force armor listed, so by simple process of elimination it must be the other one.  I've already said that 22 natural armor is from barkskin (2) and alter self, so by process of elimination the rest (20) belongs to alter self.  Yes, there is an alter self form with 5 or less HD that gives 20 natural AC.  It's actually very commonly known, and I had originally assumed that that would be the bonus everyone would identify instantly.You're absolutely right to say that there's no way that this character can do anything but tank.  I admitted as much earlier and stated that I would have cut the AC stacking at 30 to devote more resources to being useful in other ways.</blockquote>