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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6444803" data-attributes="member: 7006">Really... at this point no one should really be claiming that their interpretation is the &quot;right&quot; one or the &quot;obvious&quot; one... because the rule *as a rule* is incomplete.&nbsp; It is not written in such a way that gives us enough explanation as to tell us what the spell *really* is doing.&quot;Your Armor Class can't be below 16, regardless of the armor you're wearing&quot; is completely useless because it fails to tell us the most important question...Why?Why *can't* our AC be below 16?&nbsp; What is happening to us when the spell gets cast?&nbsp; Does the spell give us magical armor?&nbsp; Does the spell make us more easily able to dodge attacks?&nbsp; Does the spell magically parry attacks for us?&nbsp; We don't know.&nbsp; The mechanics in of themselves do not tell us *anything* of what is occurring the game world to give us a better Armor Class if it currently is lower than 16.Thus... every single one of our attempts at figuring out what is actually happening to a PC who has had Barkskin cast upon them involves making interpretations and leaps from that simple, incomplete sentence to try and come up with a ruling that is logical, correctly-powered, understood in the game world, and &quot;makes sense&quot;.And every one of us is using our tools of reading comprehension and comparative analysis to come up with two distinctly different results.Which is fine!&nbsp; There's no *real* problems that result from that (other than that one Adventurer's League player who has a druid character based around using Barkskin that now has to speak with their AL DM each time they go to a table to find out which way that DM rules it.)But let's just accept that this is the case-- that there are two legitimate results that are being given based upon using incomplete information and leave it at that.&nbsp; Because to continue to insist that &quot;No, MY way is the RIGHT way, and YOUR way is a HOUSERULE!&quot; is rather kind of lame.&nbsp; At the end of the day does it really matter?&nbsp; Especially considering WotC probably knows in-house what their intention was with the spell and just hasn't gotten around to telling the rest of us (because again, does it really matter?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6444803, member: 7006"] Really... at this point no one should really be claiming that their interpretation is the "right" one or the "obvious" one... because the rule *as a rule* is incomplete. It is not written in such a way that gives us enough explanation as to tell us what the spell *really* is doing. "Your Armor Class can't be below 16, regardless of the armor you're wearing" is completely useless because it fails to tell us the most important question... [b]Why?[/b] Why *can't* our AC be below 16? What is happening to us when the spell gets cast? Does the spell give us magical armor? Does the spell make us more easily able to dodge attacks? Does the spell magically parry attacks for us? We don't know. The mechanics in of themselves do not tell us *anything* of what is occurring the game world to give us a better Armor Class if it currently is lower than 16. Thus... every single one of our attempts at [i]figuring out[/i] what is actually happening to a PC who has had Barkskin cast upon them involves making interpretations and leaps from that simple, incomplete sentence to try and come up with a ruling that is logical, correctly-powered, understood in the game world, and "makes sense". And every one of us is using our tools of reading comprehension and comparative analysis to come up with two distinctly different results. Which is fine! There's no *real* problems that result from that (other than that one Adventurer's League player who has a druid character based around using Barkskin that now has to speak with their AL DM each time they go to a table to find out which way that DM rules it.) But let's just [i]accept[/i] that this is the case-- that there are two legitimate results that are being given based upon using [i]incomplete information[/i] and leave it at that. Because to continue to insist that "No, MY way is the RIGHT way, and YOUR way is a HOUSERULE!" is rather kind of lame. At the end of the day does it really matter? Especially considering WotC probably knows in-house what their intention was with the spell and just hasn't gotten around to telling the rest of us (because again, does it really matter?) [/QUOTE]

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