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<blockquote data-quote="UngeheuerLich" data-source="post: 9558971" data-attributes="member: 59057">Really. Does not matter. Does not help for narration. If you want that, better use AC as damage reduction and have a defense score. For attacks it already works that way: skill = attack bonus. Weapon and stats tells us which damage die and a base modifier. So those things are seperate in the Player's head. AC does too much at the same time. People have accepted that it is a flat number to beat. Also adding a level based score was bad. And it was even worse that in 4e, armor did not play any role in monster defense calculation. You can say that. You can also spell that out in the monster description. A dragon has very hard scales. The DM can describe that. As I explained above, this is how D&amp;D has worked for a long time. Good luck changing expectations. Or switching to an AC as DR with defense score determined with 10+prof bonus+dex. I think this would also work fine enough.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UngeheuerLich, post: 9558971, member: 59057"] Really. Does not matter. Does not help for narration. If you want that, better use AC as damage reduction and have a defense score. For attacks it already works that way: skill = attack bonus. Weapon and stats tells us which damage die and a base modifier. So those things are seperate in the Player's head. AC does too much at the same time. People have accepted that it is a flat number to beat. Also adding a level based score was bad. And it was even worse that in 4e, armor did not play any role in monster defense calculation. You can say that. You can also spell that out in the monster description. A dragon has very hard scales. The DM can describe that. As I explained above, this is how D&D has worked for a long time. Good luck changing expectations. Or switching to an AC as DR with defense score determined with 10+prof bonus+dex. I think this would also work fine enough. [/QUOTE]

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