Level Up (A5E) Dexterity Bonus to AC for shapeshifting

[Garmel]

Do you get a bonus or a penalty to your AC if the creature you change into has it?

 

[Anselm]

Do you get a bonus or a penalty to your AC if the creature you change into has it?

Are you talking about the druid ability to change into a beast or another ability?

 

[Garmel]

Are you talking about the druid ability to change into a beast or another ability?

The druid ability to shapeshift into a beast.

 

[Anselm]

The druid ability to shapeshift into a beast.

Page 172 of the adventurer's guide

While in a wild shape your armor class equals 12 + 1/4 your druid level as shown on the Wild Shapes table. If your wild shape would have ah igher AC, you may use that instead.

 

[Anselm]

If you take the skinchanger archetype:

In addition, you may add your Wisdom modifier to your AC while in a wild shape.

 

[Stalker0]

If you take the skinchanger archetype:

In addition, you may add your Wisdom modifier to your AC while in a wild shape.

Taking a read, the bonus reads as a pure boost to whatever AC you had before. Aka you do wildshape AC in two steps.

1) Either take the wild shape's base AC or use 12 + 1/4 druid level
2) Take the result from 1, add your wisdom modifier (if skinchanger)