AC and Dex

[Cynic]

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.

[Archmage]

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.

[Maj]

And while running.

[Leress]

And while running.

Unless you have the Run feat.

[Username17]

And a vast number of special case effects generated by spells or monsters.

-Username17

[Cynic]

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.

[Username17]

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.

-Username17

[Jacob_Orlove]

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.

[TheFlatline]

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.

[Archmage]

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.