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<blockquote data-quote="Philip" data-source="post: 2079065" data-attributes="member: 10993">I don't know, but I thought each rule exists in a context. Just as each word exists in the context of a sentence, and each sentence exists in the context of a paragraph, etc.Since the designers of the rules are trying to communicate their intentions of how the rules are supposed to be handled, I will use any available information to adjucate the rules and divine the designer's intentions. This is especially so if a particular rule (in this case the Monk's Belt) seems incongruent with other rules.The relative power of the Monk's Belt suggests to me that they didn't intend for the Wis bonus to be added to AC, even if you read the text literally and interpret it out of context, you would be able to infer that it does.When I read the quote provided above, it immediately suggested to me that is was why the designers wanted to write the Monk's Belt, and because they have since 'wisened up', they included it.But it seems to me you dislike talking about 'designer intentions'. For all I know your next argument could be that a non-Monk wearing the Monk's Belt should get an unarmed damage of 1d8+2, because when take literally, that is the unarmed damage of a 5th lvl Monk (see page 118 DMG). To me, the designer's obviously intended to refer to the Monk level progression table in the PHB, but it doesn't say that anywhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Philip, post: 2079065, member: 10993"] I don't know, but I thought each rule exists in a context. Just as each word exists in the context of a sentence, and each sentence exists in the context of a paragraph, etc. Since the designers of the rules are trying to communicate their intentions of how the rules are supposed to be handled, I will use any available information to adjucate the rules and divine the designer's intentions. This is especially so if a particular rule (in this case the Monk's Belt) seems incongruent with other rules. The relative power of the Monk's Belt suggests to me that they didn't intend for the Wis bonus to be added to AC, even if you read the text literally and interpret it out of context, you would be able to infer that it does. When I read the quote provided above, it immediately suggested to me that is was why the designers wanted to write the Monk's Belt, and because they have since 'wisened up', they included it. But it seems to me you dislike talking about 'designer intentions'. For all I know your next argument could be that a non-Monk wearing the Monk's Belt should get an unarmed damage of 1d8+2, because when take literally, that is the unarmed damage of a 5th lvl Monk (see page 118 DMG). To me, the designer's obviously intended to refer to the Monk level progression table in the PHB, but it doesn't say that anywhere. [/QUOTE]

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