Armored Hulk movement speed


Rules Questions


with the Armored Hulk archetype at level 5 do I gain +10 or +15 total movement speed from the archetype. you get 5 at level 2 and then the level 5 ability says you gain 10 and says it stacks with anything but i'm not sure if its just an increase of the level 2 ability.

Armored Swiftness (Ex): At 2nd level, an armored hulk moves faster in medium and heavy armor. When wearing medium or heavy armor, an armored hulk can move 5 feet faster than normal, to a maximum of her speed. This ability replaces uncanny dodge.

Improved Armored Swiftness (Ex): At 5th level, an armored hulk’s land speed is faster than the norm for her race by +10 feet. This benefit applies when she is wearing any armor, including heavy armor, but not while carrying a heavy load. Apply this bonus before modifying the armored hulk’s speed because of any load carried or armor worn. This bonus stacks with any other bonuses to the barbarian’s land speed. This ability replaces improved uncanny dodge.


Yeah, they stack since they're separate abilities.

In essence, it evens out to the Barbarian getting +5 ft. speed, since the armor is taking off 10 from the top.


a human has 30ft movespeed, in fullplate he has 20
at lv 2 in fullplate you have 25
at lv5 you have 40ft movespeed, and 35 because it's reduced to 30 and then increased by 5


so since I am a dwarf I will be 35 at 5 noice


nope, a dwarf would be 30ft at level 5, as dwarves arn't encombered at all by armor

Armored Swiftness is useless for a dwarf


You would be correct if the ability removed the speed penalty.

It does not. It adds a speed bonus. Being a dwarf doesn't stop that.


Sundakan wrote:

You would be correct if the ability removed the speed penalty.

It does not. It adds a speed bonus. Being a dwarf doesn't stop that.

Improved Armored Swiftness adds a flat bonus, and is useful to a dwarf.

Armored Swiftness is hard capped at the creature's normal speed, and is completely useless to a dwarf (unless they are suffering speed reduction from something else, although this little quirk is probably unintended).


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