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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5875979" data-attributes="member: 58197">Sure. But that's a property of lookup matrices, having nothing to do with whether AC goes up or down. Whatever value is at the end of the chart is the baked-in limit, whether it's AC -10, AC 30, or AC sqrt(i).&nbsp;You're drawing a connection between two things that are in no way connected. On the one hand, you have the simpler, more elegant math. On the other hand, you have the scaling issues resulting from unbounded AC. These are totally separate concerns. Yes, 3E decided to do away with a hard limit on how good your AC could get, but that decision could just as easily have been made with 2E-style negative AC. Conversely, 3E could have maintained the hard limit and capped AC at 30 while switching to the new math, and it would have worked just as well as the old -10 floor.I don't expect to see a hard cap in 5E saying &quot;You cannot ever have AC above such-and-such a value.&quot; I do think a soft cap is likely; barring crazy CharOp shenanigans, you simply won't be able to get your AC above a certain level. 4E was disciplined about this and I don't see why 5E cannot manage the same.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5875979, member: 58197"] Sure. But that's a property of lookup matrices, having nothing to do with whether AC goes up or down. Whatever value is at the end of the chart is the baked-in limit, whether it's AC -10, AC 30, or AC sqrt(i). You're drawing a connection between two things that are in no way connected. On the one hand, you have the simpler, more elegant math. On the other hand, you have the scaling issues resulting from unbounded AC. These are totally separate concerns. Yes, 3E decided to do away with a hard limit on how good your AC could get, but that decision could just as easily have been made with 2E-style negative AC. Conversely, 3E could have maintained the hard limit and capped AC at 30 while switching to the new math, and it would have worked just as well as the old -10 floor. I don't expect to see a hard cap in 5E saying "You cannot ever have AC above such-and-such a value." I do think a soft cap is likely; barring crazy CharOp shenanigans, you simply won't be able to get your AC above a certain level. 4E was disciplined about this and I don't see why 5E cannot manage the same. [/QUOTE]

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