The Naked AC having guy?

[domino]

Basically, just as a curiosity, I'm trying to figure out what the classes needed to take, to get all sorts of different stat based bonuses to AC.

Everyone gets Dex. And Monks can add Wisdom. And a Duelist can add his Int, both if not wearing any armor. Are there any classes or prestige classes that add other stats, as well?

 

[Andor]

The astetic mage feat allows you to swap the monk wis bonus for a chr bonus, but I don't think that's what you're looking for.

It's not a stat bonus but it you're looking for naked ac a single level of Egoist psion will let you take both Inertial Armour for an armour bonus, and Thicken skin for a natural armour bonus.

 

[Darkness]

Basically, just as a curiosity, I'm trying to figure out what the classes needed to take, to get all sorts of different stat based bonuses to AC.

Everyone gets Dex. And Monks can add Wisdom. And a Duelist can add his Int, both if not wearing any armor. Are there any classes or prestige classes that add other stats, as well?

Well, apart from monk/ninja, these classes generally give you a bonus no higher than your class level in the class in question so you'd need a lot of levels (or a lot of stats at like 12-15) for this to be useful.

 

[RigaMortus]

I guess you could be a Monk/Sorcerer/Ninja/Duelist with Ascetic Mage feat. Then you could apply your Dex (normal), Wis (Ninja), Int (Duelist) and Cha (Monk/Sorcerer w/ Ascetic Mage feat) to AC.

 

[Rystil Arden]

If your DM allows Mystic Wanderer, a flavorful and fun PrC from Magic of Faerun (basically a cleric or druid who preaches to the people in the wilderness and small towns, outside of normal hierarchy), be a Nymph Mystic Wanderer (nymph automatically meets the pre-reqs) with levels in Sorcerer and Monk. Mystic Wanderer lets you add "a Divine bonus equal to your Charisma Ascetic Mage feat lets you add Charisma bonus to AC while not wearing armour. So now you've netted triple your Charisma bonus to AC (add nymph gave you a +8 racial bonus to Charisma). Take a level in Ninja to regain the Wisdom bonus to AC, and if you must, add the gutted 3.5-Duelist, which caps the Int bonus to your Duelist level. So just pump your Charisma and remember that Nymph bonus counts even while in armour, but it doesn't stack with rings of protection. Someone once got almost 60 AC by doing a weaker version of this combination (before Ascetic Mage and Ninja came out).

 

[domino]

Cool. That's what I was thinking about. It's silly, but that's sort of the point.

Thanks, people.

 

[Crothian]

There is a Template in the Monsternomicon called Tough that adds Con bonus to AC as a natural armor bonus.

 

[domino]

There is a Template in the Monsternomicon called Tough that adds Con bonus to AC as a natural armor bonus.

Which leaves only Strength as a stat being not added to AC.

 

[Crothian]

In everything I have seen for d20 I don't recall a single thing that adds strength to AC.

 

[Rystil Arden]

In everything I have seen for d20 I don't recall a single thing that adds strength to AC.

And hopefully we will never see one. Frankly, I think that Constitution to AC is not a good idea to allow to fall into PC (or NPC) hands, but I guess that's why its a template that is probably meant to be used on Tough monsters rather than, say, nymphs or Mystic Wanderers.