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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shurai" data-source="post: 3481048">d20 isn't intended to be as mathematically precise as a computer program, which is why I don't think we don't really have to worry about Infinity bugs.  It's not like we're going to overflow the DM's registers or something.  : ]Moreover, "Infinity" is effectively a lot closer than you think.  All a character has to do is bump their AC to a level at which all the attackers in an encounter must roll natural 20s to hit.  That means that if the highest attack bonus a party of adventurers can produce is +10, that AC 30 is just as good as AC 859.  There are other ways to produce situations that are worse than this "effective Infinity" anyway.  There are also many ways to render oneself invulnerable to physical attacks entirely.Can I make a gentle suggestion?  I think being weirded out by these strange corner cases is a sign of taking the rules too seriously.  These corner cases are definitely strange, but there are hundreds of others hiding in all sorts of funny places.  No amount of house-ruling can ever rectify all of them.  Instead, why not just have the DM ignore them and rule whatever is reasonable; that's his job right?What I like to do is think of the game rules as a convenient way of simulating in-game events, rather than as a direct representation of them.  So, it's okay for someone's AC to get to actual infinity even in a real encounter, precisely because the rules that produced it aren't the final authority on what's happening in-game.  Again, that's the DM's job.</blockquote>

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