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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7510681" data-attributes="member: 6779196">5e doesn’t have a concept of touch AC. Even if we were to compare to touch AC in 3e, wearing heavy armor never increases your touch AC, and often decreases it. What I’m doing is interpreting where the challenge lies in overcoming a creature’s AC. The challenge is not in penetrating the armor, but in landing a blow in a spot that the armor does not cover. I guess you could call it “touch the squishy bits AC”, as opposed to 3e’s “touch anything on the creature’s person” AC.Right, in most cases. The case where it doesn’t matter is the case where the difficulty of hitting the Druid is equal to or higher than the difficulty of doing damage to the druid’s oaken flesh, both of which are represented by comparing the resultbof an attack roll against a target number - AC or 16, which ever is greater.That’s just not ture of 5e at all.Right, which is why I say that AC represents two different things, depending on if you’re attacking with a creature or an onject. An attack roll against a creature checks if your attack is precise enough to hit a vulnerable spot. An attack roll against an object checks if the attack is strong enough to damage the object. An attack roll against a creature with Barkskin  unintuitively, checks both at once.Because the Druid is a creature. It’s AC is calculated differently than an object’s, and represents something different.</blockquote>

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