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<blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 6624802" data-attributes="member: 43019">And yet, in your example, your +2 to AC made a difference of exactly 2 hits <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> +1 would have meant 1 hit. +3 would have meant 3 hits. All due to the magic of percentages.You _can_ turn AC and hp and enemy damage into an effective # of turns, but that's actually very tricky. Heck, at that point you might want to also factor in advantage and disadvantage. Also, in my experience high AC characters tend to just get hit by other stuff (ex: dragon breaths) and low AC characters tend to get mobbed. So, sticking with the basic concept of +1 AC changes &quot;40% chance to be hit&quot; to &quot;35% chance to be hit&quot; is really pretty solid. And it still applies across all levels, and gets the point across. 3e was full of stuff that scaled like mad, and it really screwed up people's expectations for bonuses. I ran into that with 4e as well. &quot;Of course it needs to add stat to defenses. +9 to defenses at epic is fine!&quot;&nbsp;One caveat: if you focus like mad on AC, it's possible that +1 AC won't matter against a subset of your opponents. It'll still matter against many of them, and honestly if you've hit that point you should probably invest in something else for a bit for the sake of the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="keterys, post: 6624802, member: 43019"] And yet, in your example, your +2 to AC made a difference of exactly 2 hits :) +1 would have meant 1 hit. +3 would have meant 3 hits. All due to the magic of percentages. You _can_ turn AC and hp and enemy damage into an effective # of turns, but that's actually very tricky. Heck, at that point you might want to also factor in advantage and disadvantage. Also, in my experience high AC characters tend to just get hit by other stuff (ex: dragon breaths) and low AC characters tend to get mobbed. So, sticking with the basic concept of +1 AC changes "40% chance to be hit" to "35% chance to be hit" is really pretty solid. And it still applies across all levels, and gets the point across. 3e was full of stuff that scaled like mad, and it really screwed up people's expectations for bonuses. I ran into that with 4e as well. "Of course it needs to add stat to defenses. +9 to defenses at epic is fine!" One caveat: if you focus like mad on AC, it's possible that +1 AC won't matter against a subset of your opponents. It'll still matter against many of them, and honestly if you've hit that point you should probably invest in something else for a bit for the sake of the game. [/QUOTE]

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