Some magical effects (including the barkskin spell) grant an improvement bonus for the creature's present organic armor reward, which has the impact of escalating the all-natural armor's All round bonus to Armor Class. A pure armor bonus isn't going to use from contact attacks. Profane Modifier Sta

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