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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6382407" data-attributes="member: 7006">Maybe.  Or maybe the Basic Game talks about 'Base Armor Class' while the PH doesn't?  I have no idea.  But in almost every situation I try to find what I think is the most reasonable assumption to what is written, as that is what I figure the designers were actually going for (without them feeling the need to use the most iron-clad language possible that would be impossible for anyone to misinterpret).  And for my money, the most reasonable assumption is that all it's doing is giving you a flat AC score as though you were wearing armor (while allowing you to wear better armor over it if you so chose.)  And then all the other AC-raising methods that aren't armor still can come into play.</blockquote>