Monstrous Druid AC...

[Scion]

Wow.. I would hope that with spending almost all of ones wealth on a single goal that it would be realized

Anyone else spending that much though would have a higher ac and more beanies (+3 more for the armor and something adding up to +3 enchantments on the shield).

Also, yeah, the bear can wear the ring. It has digits.


I believe that you also retain the armor check penalty for certain skills (or am I remembering incorrectly?) If so this guy has an incredibly easy touch ac and is the loudest, most cumbersome, slowest bear around!

If he doesnt have proficiency in the armor he is wearing then all of his attacks are massively penalized as well.

About the wild ability though, I think it is just every so slightly poorly worded. The change from 3.0 to 3.5 shifted shields to shield bonuses, and since shields are mentioned as being able to be enchanted by this then they should still grant their bonus, otherwise putting this on a shield would do nothing at all. In addition, a shield is a piece of armor, not a suit of armor. So, it lists the two seperately above as suit of armor and shield then says that the armor cannot be seen, as it does not list it as suit of armor again and since a shield is a piece of armor then it should be hidden as well.

That is one decked out bear. Good ac, hope he spent the feats to do it. Between the feats and the sheer monetary cost and the fact that if others had done something similar they would have a higher ac I really dont see much of a problem

 

[Ruvion]

ooh~
Another thing i didn't notice about the explicit note tagged on tower shield that says "hand not free to cast spells." What does this say about a druid that was holding a weapon in one hand and strapped a tower shield in the other before wild shaping? hhmmm...

Scion: I agree that the druid should get the AC benefits of his investment since he spent his resources to create such an AC beast, but wild property on melded tower shield really grates on a player's finer sensibilities.

 

[Scion]

eh, he paid a feat for heavy armor and another for tower sheilds, or took a level in another class, to get the benefit. (you said earlier he spent the feat on tower shields, does the warshaper grant heavy armor prof?)

Plus, he might just still get the -2 to all attack rolls

If he does not have proficiency then the -10 from the tower shield is enough to stop any actions relevant to the armor check penalty. That has to hurt!

As for the sillyness of the melding, I dont see it as any different then melding any other piece of equipment, magic does odd things.

 

[Ruvion]

but can you take cover behind a supposedly melded tower shield?!

 

[DM_Matt]

but can you take cover behind a supposedly melded tower shield?!

Becuase he put a +3 enchantment on it which makes it possible? Maybe it generates a force field in front of you.

 

[Ruvion]

a force field maintained by a non-visible tower shield (and a normal magicked tower shield does not create a force field that provides cover for some odd reason...just its wild melded counterpart) that makes one paw of the wildshaped dire bear useless cause he gotta be holding it up (he can't attack with it). This image of the bear holding up his paw to take cover behind it is really weird if you ask me (beyond the weirdness created by magic conventionally).

 

[shilsen]

but can you take cover behind a supposedly melded tower shield?!

I'd say "No". The wild ability lets you retain the benefit to AC, but that's it. Cover is something that the tower shield can provide only in its normal form.

 

[Scion]

yeah, there isnt any 'holding up the paw to gain cover', it is melded into the form.

So, he gets the ac bonus, but no other bonuses.

 

[Spatula]

He believes also that ring of deflection stacks, but since it is melded in when wildshaping I pointed it out that it wouldn't (right? correct me if i'm wrong).

You're correct. His equipment does not function at all, aside from the fact that he gets the AC bonuses from his armor and shield, due to the wild ability placed on those items.

 

[Spatula]

As far as I understood shields dont give an armor bonus, they give a shield bonus.

3.0/3.5 mix-up, it seems to me.