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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hcubed_" data-source="post: 5421391" data-attributes="member: 99746">Hello, I'm a fairly new DM and am having a bit of trouble understanding some aspects of the armor class rules. Learning all of the little rules and bits and pieces for such an involved game is confusing. Especially in this case.It might be a bit of a newbie question, but here it goes:One of the characters in our campaign is a fighter wearing scale armor. Which is +7 according to the character builder/ handbook. When it is un-equipped, her AC is 14, equipped it's at 18. Is the builder bugging out? Is the AC of this fighter meant to be sitting at 21 rather than 18?Why is it not adding up right?The confusion arose as the party's wizard took leather proficiency. He also has staff of defence. Both of which boosted his AC to 18. It makes little sense that this guy has the same AC as the party's fighter.To confuse things even more, the party's cleric has an AC of 17...We use the character builder as none of us are really that well endowed with knowledge of this game. Being completely fresh to the game. And the builder makes it all easier for us rather than spending the time adding and minusing bonuses etc..But, am I missing something? Quite possibly something a newbie like me would? Or is it a case of the character builder acting up?Thanks in advance if anyone can help!</blockquote>