I was looking for armor for my backline Guardian with Long-Distance taunt and found this interesting combo:
Chain Shirt+Armored Skirt [Flexible, Noisy]
Price 7 gp; AC Bonus +3; Dex Cap +2; Check Penalty -2; Speed Penalty —
Strength +2; Bulk 2; Category Medium; Group Chain
This gives you a medium armor without a speed penalty and Flexible so you can ignore the str requirement and can focus on dex starting off.
Doesn't it make it heavy armor once attached?
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Doesn't it make it heavy armor once attached?
"This also makes the armor one step heavier (from light to medium, or medium to heavy), and you use the proficiency bonus appropriate to this adjusted armor type." So Chain Shirt [Light] goes to Chain Shirt+Armored Skirt [Medium].
Ah right i didnt realize it was the shirt not the mail you started with.
Cool idea.
I'm assuming this guardian is intended to fight at range? I'd be interested to hear how often the taunts help, given the guardian's primary attribute is strength, so lowering your strength to boost Dex is also going to lower your DC.
Ah, you are correct. I had it in my head it was Con. I'll have to rethink this a bit.
You can make a thrown guardian giving him a thrown weapon that you can use while hold a shield. This will force you to sacrifice much of your Con (unless your GM allows you take Amnesiac and allows you to choose the attribute) that can give you a build that can exploit the Taunt range while keeps your own defenses high and still protects your allies vs this target.