Gort
Explorer
I've noticed that the druid in my campaign never uses wildshape because her AC suffers greatly. (going from magical armour, magical shield, and magical deflecting ring to "quite thick skin" is quite the step down) Thus, one of the iconic abilities of the druid, the ability to become a fierce predator and crush enemies of nature, is completely wasted.
I was wondering, since druids pretty much all go for high wisdom, whether an elegant solution to this problem would be to give the druid their wisdom bonus to AC. In order to prevent this unbalancing the game, I'd also rule that no other ways of enhancing wildshaped AC (such as AC buffs and putting armour/magic items on the wildshaped form) would work.
However, I'm loathe to give druids even more power when there's a strong argument that they're the most powerful class in the game. So this bonus would come in the form of a feat.
Does this sound balanced?
I was wondering, since druids pretty much all go for high wisdom, whether an elegant solution to this problem would be to give the druid their wisdom bonus to AC. In order to prevent this unbalancing the game, I'd also rule that no other ways of enhancing wildshaped AC (such as AC buffs and putting armour/magic items on the wildshaped form) would work.
However, I'm loathe to give druids even more power when there's a strong argument that they're the most powerful class in the game. So this bonus would come in the form of a feat.
Does this sound balanced?