Wild Shape Resilient AC Bonus


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If my druid has +1 resilient armor, when he wild shapes into a dinosaur - does he gain the +1 to saving throw bonus or does he lose everything?


Resilient gives an Item Bonus and Battle Form statistics cannot benefit from Item Bonuses.


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Crexis wrote:
If my druid has +1 resilient armor, when he wild shapes into a dinosaur - does he gain the +1 to saving throw bonus or does he lose everything?

He gains the +1 bonus to Saving Throws but not the +1 bonus to AC.

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Aratorin wrote:
Resilient gives an Item Bonus and Battle Form statistics cannot benefit from Item Bonuses.
The actual rule is:
Polymorph (Core Rulebook pg. 635) wrote:

These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can’t be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to counteract the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are magical. Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don’t allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.

If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most manipulate actions that require hands. (If there’s doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can’t activate any items.

Dinosaur Form does not grant saving throws, so you would use your own and retain your item bonus from your Armor Rune.

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