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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Semana" data-source="post: 6385473" data-attributes="member: 6763088">I find it pretty straight forward personally: You're not suddenly wearing chain mail, you're suddenly <a href="http://www.xmen-supreme.com/images/Colossus.jpg" target="_blank">Colossus</a> (a wood version)!Barkskin affects your skin. Your skin has an effective AC of 16. It is what gets hit after other defences have been breached. So, calculate your AC as normal (Dex mod, armour with/without shield, cover) for the circumstance of the attack - if the attack hits (gets through your calculated AC) it lands on your skin BUT it may still be stopped by the skin's effective AC of 16.eg. For all my moving, dodging, shield wielding and diving into cover, an attack still hits me (gets past my AC) and makes contact with my 'unprotected' neck, without barkskin I would immediately take the damage. With barkskin, if the attack value is less than 16 it glances off taking a few chips of wood but leaves me unharmed, if the attack value is more than 16 it bites true and I take damage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Semana, post: 6385473, member: 6763088"] I find it pretty straight forward personally: You're not suddenly wearing chain mail, you're suddenly [URL="http://www.xmen-supreme.com/images/Colossus.jpg"]Colossus[/URL] (a wood version)! Bark[I]skin[/I] affects your skin. Your skin has an effective AC of 16. It is what gets hit after other defences have been breached. So, calculate your AC as normal (Dex mod, armour with/without shield, cover) for the circumstance of the attack - if the attack hits (gets through your calculated AC) it lands on your skin BUT it may still be stopped by the skin's effective AC of 16. eg. For all my moving, dodging, shield wielding and diving into cover, an attack still hits me (gets past my AC) and makes contact with my 'unprotected' neck, without barkskin I would immediately take the damage. With barkskin, if the attack value is less than 16 it glances off taking a few chips of wood but leaves me unharmed, if the attack value is more than 16 it bites true and I take damage. [/QUOTE]

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