nittanytbone
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For sundering purposes, is a tower shield considered a held or carried item? Or is it treated like a shield/weapon?
IF HELD OR CARRIED:
"You don’t use an opposed attack roll to damage a carried or worn object. Instead, just make an attack roll against the object’s AC. A carried or worn object’s AC is equal to 10 + its size modifier + the Dexterity modifier of the carrying or wearing character. Attacking a carried or worn object provokes an attack of opportunity just as attacking a held object does. To attempt to snatch away an item worn by a defender rather than damage it, see Disarm. You can’t sunder armor worn by another character."
Is it considered armor worn by another character and thus untouchable?
If not, I imagine its AC would be 10 + 0 size + DEX.
IF A SHIELD/WEAPON:
"Opposed Rolls. You and the defender make opposed attack rolls with your respective weapons. The wielder of a two-handed weapon on a sunder attempt gets a +4 bonus on this roll, and the wielder of a light weapon takes a -4 penalty. If the combatants are of different sizes, the larger combatant gets a bonus on the attack roll of +4 per difference in size category."
One can't normally do shield bashes with a tower shield. I imagine one would take -2 (for wielding a tower shield) and another -2 (treating it as a Large-sized heavy shield, inappropriately sized weapon). Would you also take the TWF penalties if using a weapon in your off hand? What if you didn't attack with the weapon in your off hand that round?
IF HELD OR CARRIED:
"You don’t use an opposed attack roll to damage a carried or worn object. Instead, just make an attack roll against the object’s AC. A carried or worn object’s AC is equal to 10 + its size modifier + the Dexterity modifier of the carrying or wearing character. Attacking a carried or worn object provokes an attack of opportunity just as attacking a held object does. To attempt to snatch away an item worn by a defender rather than damage it, see Disarm. You can’t sunder armor worn by another character."
Is it considered armor worn by another character and thus untouchable?
If not, I imagine its AC would be 10 + 0 size + DEX.
IF A SHIELD/WEAPON:
"Opposed Rolls. You and the defender make opposed attack rolls with your respective weapons. The wielder of a two-handed weapon on a sunder attempt gets a +4 bonus on this roll, and the wielder of a light weapon takes a -4 penalty. If the combatants are of different sizes, the larger combatant gets a bonus on the attack roll of +4 per difference in size category."
One can't normally do shield bashes with a tower shield. I imagine one would take -2 (for wielding a tower shield) and another -2 (treating it as a Large-sized heavy shield, inappropriately sized weapon). Would you also take the TWF penalties if using a weapon in your off hand? What if you didn't attack with the weapon in your off hand that round?
