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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 7512779" data-attributes="member: 6818233"><p>So, you and the others talking about this do realize that the rule you quoted about any physical/visual similarity is only to determine if you add your proficiency bonus or not. It has nothing to do with the amount of damage the improvised weapon will do. The damage die is fully up to the DM to decide, as far as I can tell.</p><p></p><p>A table leg being similarly shaped to a club means you get to add your proficiency bonus to the attack, not that it will also use the club's damage die. It could do less or it could be such a heavy leg that it requires two hands and will do more damage than a club. Same thing for a sharpened tent stake being similar enough to a dagger to let you use your dagger proficiency to stab with it. Etc. But again the DM gets to decide the amount of damage. I cannot think of any weapon in 5E that a shield would be similar enough to for you to get to use a proficiency bonus with, and for me as a DM, the size of the shield would determine the damage die used, barring anything official in the rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 7512779, member: 6818233"] So, you and the others talking about this do realize that the rule you quoted about any physical/visual similarity is only to determine if you add your proficiency bonus or not. It has nothing to do with the amount of damage the improvised weapon will do. The damage die is fully up to the DM to decide, as far as I can tell. A table leg being similarly shaped to a club means you get to add your proficiency bonus to the attack, not that it will also use the club's damage die. It could do less or it could be such a heavy leg that it requires two hands and will do more damage than a club. Same thing for a sharpened tent stake being similar enough to a dagger to let you use your dagger proficiency to stab with it. Etc. But again the DM gets to decide the amount of damage. I cannot think of any weapon in 5E that a shield would be similar enough to for you to get to use a proficiency bonus with, and for me as a DM, the size of the shield would determine the damage die used, barring anything official in the rules. [/QUOTE]
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