Now we’re adding our Charisma, Int, Dex, and Con to armor class, which right now: We have to say goodbye to our ioun stones, but that’s okay because we’re gaining so much more. We pick up a Mask of the Dragon Queen because it’s fun to defeat followers of Tiamat, grab ourselves a Defender magic weapon, and max out Con and Dex. Over the next seven levels, during which we take Fighter for defensive fighting styles and some much needed ability score increases we readjust our magic items. Then we start down our true calling, bard-dom. Next we take Bladesinger, because that’ll let us add our Intelligence to our AC, which gets us up to an 18, as well as access to the Shield Spell, meaning our nudist dwarf is as hard to hit as a plate wearer. Our baseline AC is 16, which means that our dwarf, just letting it all hang out, as braided and brazen as you like, is as tough to hit as a fighter in chain mail. We’re playing your typical mountain dwarf, lithe and nimble, but with a hardy constitution.

Assuming we use point buy, we have a potential starting block of:

And Wisdom will keep us out of trouble, and we don’t want that. Armored defense is where it all begins–you’ll want a high dex and a high con.įortunately, with the new Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything charge rules, you can play a Mountain Dwarf and get +2/+2 to anything. Like stupid, sexy Flanders there, it all starts with an unbridled rage, by which we mean you’ll want to be a Barbarian. We’re going to show you how in D&D the best protection is nothing at all. And that seems like it should be the best kind of protection.īut in D&D, it turns out, the best defense happens when you’re fully nude. If you’re a D&D hero, you might wear a suit of heavy armor, double it up with a mighty shield, and fight defensively to make it hard for those goblins to land their blows. In fact, you can get more out of your Armor Class if you’re wearing nothing at all… Sometimes a high AC doesn’t require armor at all.

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