Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crosshair" data-source="post: 3462635" data-attributes="member: 22325">What a community of tangents, shooting off in every direction.To prove how ridiculous the open-ended bonus to AC can be, someone brought up the fact that given to a monster, the belt would help some monsters kill a few parties.Also, I believe it was a very relevant point that the belt is an open-ended bonus. There is no limit to the belt. I've heard a lot of people say "this or that" is appropriate for "XX level". These terms are dealing in specifics and do no present a sweeping argument for the item as a whole. It's more logical to view it from the standpoint of every power level.The arguments about getting armor and a shield instead of a monk's belt are interesting... but the protection capacities of a fixed defense item are, well, fixed.Many people have mentioned the fact that if the belt were to grant wisdom to AC it would be moot because most characters have a wisdom score that would make the defense bonus negligible. However, once PCs rise in wealth it may become more advantageous to bump wisdom instead of buying natural armor/deflection bonuses. This point is most valid in the transition from say a ring of deflection +5(nonepic) to a ring of deflection +6(epic). For the 310,000 gp difference you could easily boost your wisdom(and gain all the corresponding bonuses, such as listen/spot, will saves) for a few pennies less.That's what I've got for the moment.Oh yea, and thanks for all the random tangents :S, this is the largest thread I've had. And what are you guys doing arguing about fallacies anyway??</blockquote>

Verification