Barkskin
- School
- Transmutation
- Casting Time
- 1 standard action
- Components
- V, S, DF
- Range
- Touch
- Target
- One living creature
- Duration
- 10 minutes/level
- Saving Throw
- None
- Spell Resistance
- Yes (harmless)
Barkskin toughens a creature’s skin. The effect grants a +2 enhancement bonus to the creature’s existing natural armor bonus. This enhancement bonus increases by 1 for every three caster levels above 3rd, to a maximum of +5 at caster level 12th.
The enhancement bonus provided by barkskin stacks with the target’s natural armor bonus, but not with other enhancement bonuses to natural armor. A creature without natural armor has an effective natural armor bonus of +0, much as a character wearing only normal clothing has an armor bonus of +0.