Okay, I know this is a odd question, I have a monk character who has just earned proficiency in Longbows and as a gift the Cleric in the party bought him a set of leather bracers to help him with use of a bow, it has a AC of +1 and I was wondering if this disables the Monk features as one of my friends said it counted as armor. Does it? I can't find any sort of ruling so I just was curious on how that would work.
If it is not armor, it is not armor. Some examples are Bracers of Defense which increases your AC, and is not armor. Or perhaps a shield, also increases AC, also not armor. The only person who can truly answer this for you, however, is your DM, if this is a homebrew item.
This would depend on what your DM rules these bracers to be. In terms of equipment, AC is derived from Dexterity, Armor worn, shields, and magic items. To me, it sounds like the bracers are a magic item as there aren't any pieces of armor that a lot a single +1 AC bonus.
It looks like these have been created based on old game mechanics or possibly even rolemaster when their properties were decided on, my memory suffers from things vanishing in the mists of time,
However intrinsically, unless the +1 Ac bonus is magical they are armour. they imbue a +1 to AC, as an archers wristguard, they shouldn't give you that +1 because they should be too small and only on one arm, you now have 2 possible courses of action, point this out to your DM or don't, regardless both ways involve buying your DM extra chocolate for being nice
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Okay, I know this is a odd question, I have a monk character who has just earned proficiency in Longbows and as a gift the Cleric in the party bought him a set of leather bracers to help him with use of a bow, it has a AC of +1 and I was wondering if this disables the Monk features as one of my friends said it counted as armor. Does it? I can't find any sort of ruling so I just was curious on how that would work.
If it is not armor, it is not armor. Some examples are Bracers of Defense which increases your AC, and is not armor. Or perhaps a shield, also increases AC, also not armor. The only person who can truly answer this for you, however, is your DM, if this is a homebrew item.
This would depend on what your DM rules these bracers to be. In terms of equipment, AC is derived from Dexterity, Armor worn, shields, and magic items. To me, it sounds like the bracers are a magic item as there aren't any pieces of armor that a lot a single +1 AC bonus.
It looks like these have been created based on old game mechanics or possibly even rolemaster when their properties were decided on, my memory suffers from things vanishing in the mists of time,
However intrinsically, unless the +1 Ac bonus is magical they are armour. they imbue a +1 to AC, as an archers wristguard, they shouldn't give you that +1 because they should be too small and only on one arm,
you now have 2 possible courses of action, point this out to your DM or don't, regardless both ways involve buying your DM extra chocolate for being nice
All plans turn into, run into the room waving a sword and see what happens from there, once the first die gets rolled