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<blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 4056863" data-attributes="member: 36160">None of this is inevitable -- or did you think that hill giants had a +20 natural armor bonus because they had skin several meters thick? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />It's definitely true that a 30th level naked epic-peasant would have a (base) AC of (picking a random number... base 10 plus half level 15 = 25) 25, while a naked (regular-type) commoner would have an AC of (ditto) 10, oh noes, &amp;c &amp;c. But right now, most everybody at that level winds up with an AC of 40 or more, that I've seen.Besides, this is for characters. Monsters have different rules, defined such that their statistics are the complement of the expected values of the players. The new math is really intended to just get those expected values to not be too hairy. &quot;Security by obscurity&quot; is my touchstone concept here, but yeah, I know how you feel. A few more months and all shall be laid bare.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lackhand, post: 4056863, member: 36160"] None of this is inevitable -- or did you think that hill giants had a +20 natural armor bonus because they had skin several meters thick? :D It's definitely true that a 30th level naked epic-peasant would have a (base) AC of (picking a random number... base 10 plus half level 15 = 25) 25, while a naked (regular-type) commoner would have an AC of (ditto) 10, oh noes, &c &c. But right now, most everybody at that level winds up with an AC of 40 or more, that I've seen. Besides, this is for characters. Monsters have different rules, defined such that their statistics are the complement of the expected values of the players. The new math is really intended to just get those expected values to not be too hairy. "Security by obscurity" is my touchstone concept here, but yeah, I know how you feel. A few more months and all shall be laid bare. [/QUOTE]

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