Vow of Poverty Loophole?

[Visigani]

Begging is generally associated with consumables. I don't think the rules support begging expensive magic items off your friends. I'm pretty sure that's technically mooching.

Follow the conversation, son.

I'm saying beg for the incense used to meditate in an effort to memorize the spells for an eidetic wizard. Homes.

 

[Rampant]

Might work, the trick is getting the DM to buy it, especially difficult if the party doesn't occasionally use the incense themselves.

 

[the Jester]

I don't have the BOED (it being one of the worst D&D books ever published, and this thread is more evidence of that, hey ho!), but does the "can use magic items that protect him" phrase appear in the flavor text of the class or as a class feature?

 

[Visigani]

I don't have the BOED (it being one of the worst D&D books ever published, and this thread is more evidence of that, hey ho!), but does the "can use magic items that protect him" phrase appear in the flavor text of the class or as a class feature?

Under Class Features with Weapon and Armor Proficiency.

It's interesting to note that the text really doesn't specify in terms of "protect them". A good cloak can protect just about anyone from the cold and the rain.

A Cloak of Charisma +2 can protect one from the rain. A Gauntlet of Ogre strength can protect your hands from getting burned when you take your little ogre cookies out of the oven.

A weapon can be used to fight defensively with.

 

[Rampant]

I'd like to see a player 'wear' an axe.

 

[the Jester]

I'd like to see a player 'wear' an axe.

That can be from 1d6 on up points of "protection".

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

A weapon would have to be a Defending weapon to count, IMO, but it certainly could work. You can actually make almost every slot have a defensive item, especially if you overlap the same benefits on multiple body slots (only benefiting once, of course, the other locations would just be a +1 to enable other things).

Also, depending on what (prestige) classes you take, int, con, wis, and charisma all have the potential to boost AC. I might try to make a list of all the different options at some point, I find this amusing.