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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4056894" data-attributes="member: 4937">Don't mistake my claiming 'X is a problem' for the claim that 'Existing Y isn't a problem'.  Yes, there are existing problems.In particular, 3.x has a problem with 'glass cannons' partially due to just what you describe.  My biggest problem with this is that it makes the initiative roll too important to the combat (in a close fight, the deciding factor in how tough it was will be who went first, which effectively has the same problem as 'save or die').  But scaling AC with level doesn't really fix the problem (although some other changes in the game do address this problem like reducing the damage from individual attacks and the number of attacks in a round), because the party is still likely to be able to overwhelm the AC of any lower level monster.  However, since BAB scales but not AC, at least in 3.X any lower level brute that survived the first round at least had a decent chance of doing some damage.  If AC scales with BAB, then the monster is likely to be in the same boat as monsters near the bottom end of the CR scale (orcs, gnolls, etc.) - unable to effect a foe of much higher level at all.</blockquote>