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<blockquote data-quote="Sulicius" data-source="post: 9582640" data-attributes="member: 6896569">+3 AC at late tier 2 would ruin my encounter design. Yes, damage is king, but I don't think you see how terrible every combat is when the monsters just can't hit a PC. It lowers the stakes and makes a fight boring. I have been there. Every fight I went through the motions of monsters &quot;learning&quot; that one character was too hard to hit and move on to the other PC's. Every. Fight. I used saving throw based abilities, but because other PC's had more impact in the battle, I instead targeted them. The AC-stacked PC also always stayed within the aura of the paladin. They just became a non-interactible in every combat to me. That was just unfun, and the player realized that the only thing they could do was soak up attacks. Then when I finally attacked the backline, the backline immediately dropped. And then the backline got healed up again by the AC-stacked PC, because they would never go down. It was the most terrible repetitive pattern every combat, and I hated it.I will never allow/hand out AC stacking like that again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sulicius, post: 9582640, member: 6896569"] +3 AC at late tier 2 would ruin my encounter design. Yes, damage is king, but I don't think you see how terrible every combat is when the monsters just can't hit a PC. It lowers the stakes and makes a fight boring. I have been there. Every fight I went through the motions of monsters "learning" that one character was too hard to hit and move on to the other PC's. Every. Fight. I used saving throw based abilities, but because other PC's had more impact in the battle, I instead targeted them. The AC-stacked PC also always stayed within the aura of the paladin. They just became a non-interactible in every combat to me. That was just unfun, and the player realized that the only thing they could do was soak up attacks. Then when I finally attacked the backline, the backline immediately dropped. And then the backline got healed up again by the AC-stacked PC, because they would never go down. It was the most terrible repetitive pattern every combat, and I hated it. I will never allow/hand out AC stacking like that again. [/QUOTE]

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