If you are cross classing Barb/Monk it gives your ac the boost from both which in the phb states shouldn't be a thing.... There are a few other cases of this when it comes to cross classing boosts might be a coding error.
it doesn't combine the AC from both features - it merely calculates both and selects the calculation that yields the best AC.
You are correct though, as per the PHB, the Unarmored Defense feature should not be gained at all if a character already possesses it from an existing class.
That's not a combination. Barbarian AC is 10+Dex+Con and Monk is 10+Dex+Wis. In the case of that character both would be 20 because it has +5 Dex +5 Con and +5 Wis and that character does have 20.
If you click on the AC on your character sheet it even tells you specifically how it's calculating it.
However, do you actually gain the 'monk version' of unarmored defense when MCing into monk from Barbie. I thought the MCing rules (from PHB) explicitly stated that you don't even get the 2nd version of the feature by that title. I just made a Barbie that MCed into Monk and it allows usage of the Monk version as character had higher Wis than Con.
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If you are cross classing Barb/Monk it gives your ac the boost from both which in the phb states shouldn't be a thing.... There are a few other cases of this when it comes to cross classing boosts might be a coding error.
Hi there,
it doesn't combine the AC from both features - it merely calculates both and selects the calculation that yields the best AC.
You are correct though, as per the PHB, the Unarmored Defense feature should not be gained at all if a character already possesses it from an existing class.
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Here is a Barb 12/Monk 8 build I made where this combined calculation seems to be occurring
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That's not a combination. Barbarian AC is 10+Dex+Con and Monk is 10+Dex+Wis. In the case of that character both would be 20 because it has +5 Dex +5 Con and +5 Wis and that character does have 20.
If you click on the AC on your character sheet it even tells you specifically how it's calculating it.
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That's weird when I did it and linked it yesterday it said 25 lol oh well all's good
However, do you actually gain the 'monk version' of unarmored defense when MCing into monk from Barbie. I thought the MCing rules (from PHB) explicitly stated that you don't even get the 2nd version of the feature by that title. I just made a Barbie that MCed into Monk and it allows usage of the Monk version as character had higher Wis than Con.