Shop affordable wall art to hang in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls arent welcome. Since you're past level 4, I'd advise the fleshraker from the MM III. Unique Druid Wild Shape Posters designed and sold by artists. Your friend has an animal companion, and if you really need tanking, that can serve this purpose admirably.

In any case, you should probably skip tanking anyways. That thing gives you +5 AC for hours/level, imposes a -4 penalty to melee attacks against you, and only costs a second level slot. Source Copyright: Magic of Faerun Copyright 2001, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

Instead, as has also been mentioned, use the spell luminous armor from the book of exalted deeds. Druid wild shape as if +4 levels, or as 5th level if no such ability yet. Barkskin only lasts for 10 minutes/level, so it never just lasts all day, and mage armor requires that you rely on folks that are not you. However, I'd probably skip both of those spells anyway. So I'm trying to find permanent Magic Soloutions instead(because clearly it's not piling on if it's magic items -) ) :-DAs has been mentioned, that's very much wrong. Well my GM's a bit iffy about it atm.He's talking about not allowing Mage Armor and Barkskin to stack because they're both AC improving spells and hence it's 'piling on'. Remember that as a druid you can't use metal armors and metal shields, so you'll have to buy a dragon-hide version of them. Note that since there's no armor penalty when you're wild shaped, you can take a wild 'the heaviest armor you manage to find' +1 and get a big bonus to AC with little effort. Wild armor melds with the new form, lose any armor penalty but you still get the armor bonus to AC. You can use an armor with the Wild special ability (CAdv IIRC). Monk's belt is a good item to use with a wildling clasp, since you'll probably have high Wis (note that it doesn't work if you use an armor or a shield). Any piece of equipment with a wildling clasp attached doesn't meld and instead changes its size to fit the new form. You can wildling clasps (MIC, 4.000 gp each) and attach them to your equipment. In addition to the normal effects of wild shape, the druid gains all the elementals immunities, extraordinary, supernatural, and spell-like abilities. There are some ways around this limitation: Any new items worn in the assumed form fall off and land at the druid's feet.Yes, any item worn by the druid when he uses Wild Shape melds with the body and become nonfunctional. Ulredd Stonesplitter (Wild Shaped and with Barkskin) CR 10Male Mountain Dwarf Druid 9 / Natures Warrior 1(CW 63)Neutral Good Medium HumanoidInit +2, Senses Listen +10 Spot +14 darkvision 60 ft. Behind it is a fierce-looking dire badger, also with barding. When the druid reverts to her true form, any objects previously melded into the new form reappear in the same location on her body that they previously occupied and are once again functional. A dire lion with barding and wearing a cloak stands before you, intelligence gleaming in its eyes. Any gear worn or carried by the druid melds into the new form and becomes nonfunctional.

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