While you are wearing armor, using a shield, or carrying weapons on your person, your armor class becomes Armor + Shield + your Dexterity modifier , + your non-phyiscal modifier + your level.
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Posted Feb 4, 2022I think you should take a step back and do the math before posting this publicly
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Posted Mar 19, 2022Take this at Variant Human Level 1 Fighter, take Chain Mail. Assuming Point Buy for stats, 15 Dex + 1 from VHuman. Already we have 16 + 3 + 1 = 20 AC.
Add a Shield, which you can also start with as a Fighter, then, assuming we can just choose a non-physical modifier, we can easily get another 15 + 1 stat for whatever we want, that's 16 + 2 + 3 + 3 +1 = 25 AC.
My level 11 Warforged Armorer Artificer has 24 AC with a +2 infusion on his armor/shield and no other magic items.
This complete Newb character with not a single adventure to his name beats out my robot in AC.
And he only gets more powerful. Lets fast forward a couple adventures, and our Level 1 has become a level 4, with full Plate. For his level 4 ASI he added 2 to his Dex. 18 + 2 +4 +3 +4 = 31 AC. Still no magic items and he has surpassed 30 AC.
So how bad can this get? Short Version, 53 AC and nearly unkillable. Long Version in the spoiler.
Level 20, with +3 Plate and +3 Shield. Level 6 ASI goes to 20 Dex, 8 and 12 go to 20 Wis/Int/Cha, 14 goes to Shield Master,16 goes to Heavy Armor Master because screw any attack that does get through, 19 does whatever they want. 18 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 5 + 20 = 53 AC. And because of the Feats, Dex saves aren't going to work either because we get a +10 to save (5 dex 5 shield) on Dex Saves, and don't even take any damage on a success unless we already used our reaction on something else, like another Dex Save because that is basically the only way to kill this guy anymore and it sure as heck isn't very easy still. And assuming we use Wisdom as our non-physical, you still get a +5 against those saves! AND YOU'RE A LEVEL 20 FIGHTER WITH 4 ATTACKS PER TURN, 8 IF YOU SURGE. AND **** IT PICK CHAMPION TO REGEN HEALTH EVERY TURN AS WELL. WHO NEEDS DEATH?! THE ONLY WAY TO DIE AT THIS RATE IS TO FAIL A SAVING THROW AND HAVE THAT OUT RIGHT KILL YOU. AND ALSO WE DON'T NEED TO CARE ABOUT STRENGTH BECAUSE WHO CARES ABOUT A -10 FEET MOVE SPEED WITH AC LIKE THIS?!
This is hella unbalanced. There is a reason that the only armors that add your dex to AC are either kind of bad without it or are limited to +2. And a reason that all the unarmored defense feats require a lack of armor.
Sometimes, you need to think about just how powerful a Feat can be. Take a look at your Feat the next time you're about to hit that publish button, and ask yourself, "Could this be abused, and if so, how bad is it's abuse?". In this case, your reply to that question should be "Holy **** what have I just created?!" It sounded cool in your head. I'm sure it did. But not everything works out once it's put on paper.
D, was still a fun to figure out just how insane it could get, even if I went a little mad. At least it's not a "Get God Mode" feat. Though it is close.
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Posted Nov 22, 2022So a level 4 dwarf wizard could wear plate, hold a shield get int 17 for +3 using Tasha's rules and dex 15 and then cast shield for AC 32. Very balanced
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Posted Mar 26, 2024What does "non-physical modifier" mean?