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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6444952" data-attributes="member: 15700">The literal text seems pretty obvious.&nbsp; Nothing in the spell says it does anything to your AC until the point where the AC becomes less than 16.&nbsp; It's a contingency spell, clearly spelled (no pun intended) out when it takes effect.&nbsp; I.e., nothing stacks with it.&nbsp; Everything that impacts AC is figured out, then the spell either applies (making AC 16), or it doesn't.&nbsp; If they didn't intend it that way, then sure it's poorly written.&nbsp; But the interpretation should not be ambiguous any more than order of operations in math is ambiguous.&nbsp; It literally says the AC can't be less than 16.&nbsp; The spell is setting a floor rate, not a base rate.&nbsp; That does not in any way, shape, or form, make your base AC at least 16 or it would have said &quot;base AC&quot;.&nbsp; The term &quot;Armor Class&quot; is made up of several factors.&nbsp; So if all those factors result in an AC less than 16, barkskin takes affect and makes it 16.&nbsp; That's when floor rates kick in.&nbsp; That's how things like floor rates work in pretty every industry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 6444952, member: 15700"] The literal text seems pretty obvious. Nothing in the spell says it does anything to your AC until the point where the AC becomes less than 16. It's a contingency spell, clearly spelled (no pun intended) out when it takes effect. I.e., nothing stacks with it. Everything that impacts AC is figured out, [i]then[/i] the spell either applies (making AC 16), or it doesn't. If they didn't intend it that way, then sure it's poorly written. But the interpretation should not be ambiguous any more than order of operations in math is ambiguous. It literally says the AC can't be less than 16. The spell is setting a floor rate, not a base rate. That does not in any way, shape, or form, make your [i]base[/i] AC at least 16 or it would have said "base AC". The term "Armor Class" is made up of several factors. So if all those factors result in an AC less than 16, barkskin takes affect and makes it 16. That's when floor rates kick in. That's how things like floor rates work in pretty every industry. [/QUOTE]

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