Calculate Wizard

[scottchiefbaker]

I have a level 5 wizard with leather armor proficiency, and an intelligence modifier of +4.

I calculate my AC as 18: 10 + 2 (half level) + 2 (leather armor) + 4 (Intelligence modifier because it's light armor). However, the character builder calculates it at 16. I don't think the character builder is giving me the +2 for the armor.

Am I doing the math correctly?

 

[FrozenChrono]

Yes.

Do you have the armor equipped?

You can tell if you're getting the armor bonus by looking at your character sheet, on the AC section there's a list adding all your modifiers.

 

[Amaroq]

Heh, yeah I've made that mistake, too. I wish CB would auto-equip non-conflicting items when acquired! (Obviously, it couldn't do that if I acquired a second sword, as it wouldn't know which one I preferred.)

In fact, one of my favorite encounters of all time involved that mistake. Playing the original Might and Magic on an Apple ][e, I made my first party, bought them all sorts of good starting equipment, and headed out into the streets. The very first thing I encountered was a black cat.

A single, perfectly ordinary cat.

What the heck, its a new game: attack!!

TPK.

I kid you not, that one cat took all five of my guys down, even exhausting the cleric's healing.

"Hmm, this game sucks."

New game. New equipment. Oh, hey, look, it didn't equip my stuff ...

Queue mental image of that first fight, keystone cops style: five naked humans vs one pissed-off-black cat.

 

[Gruns]

Come on! Level 5! Surely you have 360gp lying around so you can throw on some fancy +1 Leather!!!
(I know, not the point)
I'm going to go with "It's not equipped", too. For what it's worth, if you Add the armor it goes to inventory. If you Buy it, it equips it for you.
Later!
Gruns

 

[Amaroq]

if you Add the armor it goes to inventory. If you Buy it, it equips it for you.

Man, never knew that! We tend not to wind up tracking gold through CB, so I've been using "Add" and thinking of CB as "broken" for a while! Thanks, Gruns!

 

[scottchiefbaker]

Aha! That was it! I didn't see the equipped section on the right. Once I corrected that, the numbers are correct.