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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 4987856" data-attributes="member: 51942">I think your version of second skin has a decent approach.  Personally though, I don't think it's good enough to warrant a house rule.  The balance change is pretty small, and it requires yet another feat for the shaman and warlock, that can just use hide armor expertise (admittedly unhandily for the warlock).There's also a technical issue here; this version of second skin counts as heavy armor - that means it conflicts with the barbarian's class feature.  In heroic tier at least, I can hardly imagine it's worth giving up +1AC, +1Ref, the ability to add Dex or Int to AC and a feat just to get a flat +2AC bonus.  Also, this version might be misconstrued to stack with hide armor expertise, the wording is a little overcomplicated.I think I'd just keep only Eldritch Armor, with the following change:Prerequisite: WarlockBenefit: When wearing no armor or light armor you add the lower of your Charisma or Constitution modifier to AC instead of adding Dexterity or Intelligence.This avoids finicky stat prereqs, weird prereqs just to keep multiclassers out, and it unlikely to be abusable - and even if the odd multiclasser takes it; that's costing him a warlock multiclass feat, this feat, and still nets him an AC bonus that'll be lower than any Dex/Int primary class - i.e, no big balance problems.Thaneborns don't really need an AC booster since they don't actually need a particularly high charisma; and if you happen to raise all stats at levels 4/8/14/18/24/28, then even a very cha-focused barbarian isn't an issue.</blockquote>

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