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<blockquote data-quote="Giltonio_Santos" data-source="post: 6444600" data-attributes="member: 36874">Sorry, but it's not my interpretation, it's the rules as written. If you go through your PHB, you'll see that sometimes the language used is &quot;your AC is XX&quot;. In other places, the language used is &quot;you gain a +X bonus to your AC&quot;. Barkskin clearly uses the first language, and this is the reason why it can't stack with armor, dexterity, or anything else that uses the same language (such as constitution or wisdom, for barbarians and monks, respectively). Shields, on the other hand, uses the second type of language, much like cover or the shield of faith spell. A druid should be able to stack barkskin with a shield in the same way a barbarian does with the unarmored defense feature.If interpretation of rules as written is not enough to you, though, we can go the other way and analyze the spell on its own merits. If we had a spell that puts you on nonmagical chainmail for up to one hour, 2nd level, concentration required, would it be broken? I don't think so. So, where's the brokenness?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Giltonio_Santos, post: 6444600, member: 36874"] Sorry, but it's not my interpretation, it's the rules as written. If you go through your PHB, you'll see that sometimes the language used is "your AC is XX". In other places, the language used is "you gain a +X bonus to your AC". Barkskin clearly uses the first language, and this is the reason why it can't stack with armor, dexterity, or anything else that uses the same language (such as constitution or wisdom, for barbarians and monks, respectively). Shields, on the other hand, uses the second type of language, much like cover or the shield of faith spell. A druid should be able to stack barkskin with a shield in the same way a barbarian does with the unarmored defense feature. If interpretation of rules as written is not enough to you, though, we can go the other way and analyze the spell on its own merits. If we had a spell that puts you on nonmagical chainmail for up to one hour, 2nd level, concentration required, would it be broken? I don't think so. So, where's the brokenness? [/QUOTE]

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