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### AC and Dex

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Post by Cynic » Sat Jun 05, 2010 7:17 pm

This is an old topic but I can't find a comprehensive chart as to all the times when you lose dex to AC.
d20srd or phb page# would be ideal but you guys can just tell me though.

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Post by Archmage » Sat Jun 05, 2010 10:30 pm

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/conditionSummary.htm
Blind, cowering, flat-footed, grappling, helpless, attacker is invisible, paralyzed (because they are helpless), and stunned.
Blind is easy to remember because it's basically reverse invisibility.

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Post by Maj » Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:32 pm

And while running.
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Post by Leress » Sat Jun 05, 2010 11:48 pm

> Maj wrote:And while running.

Unless you have the Run feat.
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Post by Username17 » Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:01 am

And a vast number of special case effects generated by spells or monsters.
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Post by Cynic » Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:05 pm

yeah, I know about most of them but I was hoping for a single link that I can just give someone playing an assassin. But, this will do.
Thanks guys.

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Post by Username17 » Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:07 pm

> Cynic wrote:yeah, I know about most of them but I was hoping for a single link that I can just give someone playing an assassin. But, this will do.
> Thanks guys.

No chance of that. There's a bunch of stuff like blink that simply says in its own description that it negates Dex bonuses and isn't tied back to any generic game state.
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Post by Jacob_Orlove » Sun Jun 06, 2010 7:19 pm

Or like how you have to read the Balance skill to find out that trying to balance with less than 5 skill ranks makes you flat-footed. You wouldn't even know that spells like Grease and Sleet Storm can cause affected characters to lose Dex-to-AC without reading the entries for the spells, the balance skill, AND the flat-footed condition.
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Post by TheFlatline » Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:56 pm

I haven't seen reference to "target is flanked" either.
Flat-footed, invisible/blind, and flanked are the 3 that most rogues will end up using.
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Post by Archmage » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:37 pm

That's because you don't lose your Dex to AC when flanked. The attacker just gets a +2 bonus and rogues are explicitly allowed to sneak attack.

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