Elephant's Hide overpowered?

[Ogrork the Mighty]

+7 natural armour bonus for 10 minutes at the cost of 1 wild shape use. Does this not seem overpowered?

 

[the Jester]

Does it have any particular prereqs?

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Only pre-req is the ability to wild shape into a Large creature (so basically 8th-lvl druid).

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

You could instead become a polar bear, which has a natural armour bonus of +5, as well as a natural attack scheme, and stay that way for several hours. Or a dire boar, which has a bonus of +6, and natural attacks. Certainly there are advantages to being a humanoid, such as being able to hold objects and use certain items, but most druids I've seen have Natural Spell and spend most of their time wild-shaped anyway. I don't see it as too overpowered, especially since they don't gain a natural attack at 1d8+12 damage if they use up a wild shape to accomplish it, and they need to use a feat to do it.

 

[CRGreathouse]

I also see no balance problems.

 

[Ferret]

Nope, no problems from me. Does it have anything of thematic affect (does the skin actually go grey and thick). Are there other spells of similiar effect.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

OK, cool. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't some outrageous uber-feat.

 

[daTim]

I'm also pretty sure it doesnt stack with other bonus's.

 

[Crothian]

I'm also pretty sure it doesnt stack with other bonus's.

natural armor bonuses do not stack, so you are correct Sir!

 

[Shadeus]

natural armor bonuses do not stack, so you are correct Sir!

Well...most of the time. Except for the barkskin spell which also grants a natural armor bonus.

Barkskin toughens a creature’s skin. The effect grants a +2 enhancement bonus to the creature’s existing natural armor bonus. This enhancement bonus increases by 1 for every three caster levels above 3rd, to a maximum of +5 at caster level 12th.

The enhancement bonus provided by barkskin stacks with the target’s natural armor bonus, but not with other enhancement bonuses to natural armor. A creature without natural armor has an effective natural armor bonus of +0.