Can someone explain Insight AC Bonus...

[Shadow64]

OK, looking around in the Epic Level Book I see a whole slew of monsters with something called "Insight" bonus to their AC. Can someone tell me where this came from (i can't find anything in the epic book, but maybe I'm just blind), what it's description is, and anything else useful about it. (ie - can characters get similar bonuses, or is it an NPC thing only).

Thanks

 

[Crothian]

pg 177 DMG

Insight: An insight bonus makes a character better at what he is doing because he has an almost precognitive knowledge of factors pertinent to the activity, as with the spell True Strike.

 

[Hejdun]

The only non-epic way to get an insight bonus to AC is through the Helm of Vision (Defenders of the Faith).

 

[Chun-tzu]

The only non-epic way to get an insight bonus to AC is through the Helm of Vision (Defenders of the Faith).

...or certain psionic powers, like Combat Precognition (level 1 power) that offers a +1 insight bonus to AC.

 

[Kibo]

AKA

Spidey-sense

 

[Zhure]

...or certain psionic powers, like Combat Precognition (level 1 power) that offers a +1 insight bonus to AC.

..and also Armor of Insight from the PsiHB.
Greg

 

[Blood Jester]

I don't have my books here, but isn't the Monk Wis-based AC bonus an insight bonus?

 

[Zhure]

I don't have my books here, but isn't the Monk Wis-based AC bonus an insight bonus?

It's an unnamed bonus, but the flavor text says it's from his "pretenatural awareness."

Lemme dredge up an exact quote.

"Monks are not proficient with armor or shields, but they are
highly trained at dodging blows, and they develop a “sixth sense”
that lets them avoid even unanticipated attacks. A monk adds her Wisdom bonus (if any) to AC, in addition to her normal Dexterity modifier, and her AC improves as she gains levels... The Wisdom bonus and the AC bonus represent a preternatural awareness of danger, and a monk does not lose either even in situations when she loses her Dexterity modifier due to being unprepared, ambushed, stunned, and so on. (Monks do lose these AC bonuses when immobilized.)"

Greg

 

[Blood Jester]

Ah, gotcha. I guess my brain just filed that away as 'insight'. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, and all that...

 

[James McMurray]

The spell Foresight also grants an insight bonus of +2. Pretty powerful for a 9th level spell... NOT!