Dragon #293, Dastana and Chahar-aina Question Answered

[Black Omega]

Well, that settles that. When layering the armor the magical bonus of any shield is added to either the armor magical bonus, the Chahar-aina magical bonus or the dastana magical bonus, whichever is highest. But special advantages of the magic still apply, so if your armor, dastana and chahar-aina all have something else special like fortification, that all still stacks.

 

[Wolf72]

rats!

ah well, hey that still means you could get lots of weird bonus stuff ... all the resistances, SR, silent moves, ...

and you'd still get at least a +1 AC from the piece (normal rules) of add-on.

 

[drnuncheon]

Re: rats!

ah well, hey that still means you could get lots of weird bonus stuff ... all the resistances, SR, silent moves, ...

and you'd still get at least a +1 AC from the piece (normal rules) of add-on.

Combined with the bishop's mantle, spaulders, and tonlet from Bastion's Arms & Armor, you could get a total of +54 worth of armor qualities (and another +9 from your shield).

Assuming you used a chain shirt and large shield, both enchanted to +5, you'd have an armor bonus of +13 with an enhancement bonus of +10 (from armor and shield), for a total of +23 AC. Of course, you'd also have an armor check penalty of -11, a max dex bonus of +0, and an arcane spell failure chance of 85%. And you'd probably look pretty goofy, too.

J, way too much time on his hands.