Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Originally Posted by The_Red_Queen
but it doesn’t feel at all the same as wielding one, with the flexibility to move the shield to catch and block attacks that you can see coming.
Indeed ... but this is problem with ruleset itself, isnt it? smile

I mean, if we start thinking about if Shield wielded in hand should provide additional AC, bcs his defensive atributes (for lack of better therm in my voabulary) are without a doubt better ...

Shouldnt we start giving same (or at least simmilar) deffensive bonus to Dual Wielding weapons? smile I mean, parrying daggers are a thing. smile

I agree, and I wasn't actually advocating for a reduced AC bonus when wearing a shield, just saying I can see an argument for smile.

The ruleset is of course necessarily stylised rather than always what makes sense, and I actually think that, though yes probably someone would get some defensive bonus from having a shield on their back, that should be ignored for the sake of simplicity and shield bonuses only apply when shields are equipped. But then, if you can always freely swap back to your shield at the end of the turn anyway (as long as you have one already equipped) that just means that we are incentivised switch back every time to get that benefit, so giving us the AC bonus regardless is just saving us boring busy-work. Though, as per the point about attacks of opportunity you made, we have another incentive there to do the boring busy-work anyway.

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