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Shard, the glass sword has several curious properties: when immersed in water it becomes invisible, and its strikes are not impeded or slowed (attack with advantage when immersed in water unless your target can see invisible). It can also pass through glass as if the glass were air. While...

You can have a minimum of 1 on level up if you want, but I will always have Half Max +1. :p

Which has nothing to do with with the point I was making. Damn, people can't read these days. I was talking about a theoretical change to reflect how I believe shields work in real life. I never said it would be balanced. I also never mentioned the specifics, because it would have to be...

Yes, your rebuttal is.

I thought as much. No RAW. Your aren't interacting with an object when you drop it. You are ceasing to interact with it. Therefore, your interpretation isn't RAW. Just what you believe the rules intend, or RAI - even if you choose not to use that interpretation. Which is fine. Just...

So first you say 5e doesn't make it clear...then you say it is RAW. Doesn't sound very RAW to me. But since you think it is RAW, then I expect you have a page number and paragraph where the RAW explicitly states that dropping an object (i.e. ceasing to manipulate it) counts as an object...

Yeah, I've kind of stopped caring. Common sense shouldn't have to be spelled out in the rules for every aspect of the game. Sometimes it can just be left in the DM's hands. But if you want to be butt hurt about this, I obviously can't stop you. Carry on.

Please don't put words in my mouth, because that's not at all what I said.

Perhaps because they are leaving that up to the DM. Some DM's simply don't care. If the DM does care, they'll let the players know. I know I check over all the characters before we start playing when I run my home game. I'm pretty lenient on backgrounds, but if you use a custom...

Well, you aren't forced to do that. You basically have three options (as I see it) - decide that based on your backstory the Pirate background is what best represents your character when the game starts and use the background feature from that (you are a former Noble, but no longer benefit...

You misunderstand. I didn't say it was completely redundant. Which is why it still gives +2 AC for heavy armor. I just think it the amount of relative protection it gives would (in theory) be even greater if you didn't have a lot of armor on. A lot of blows that are completely stopped by...

Oh, the irony.

Hey, that's just how you roll.

*sigh* Take whatever insinuation you wish. Because apparently "that's how you roll". :hmm:

Well, I also require it to make narrative sense, but really that is a trivial exercise in storytelling. If the player has trouble fleshing it out, I'll do it for them. I recently made a background that was a cross between Urchin and Outlander. It had the Outlander benefits and starting...

Oddly enough, I allow it for exactly that reason. Using the rules to give your character a "mechanical advantage" is just part of the game. A part that most players seem to enjoy, so why make it less enjoyable for them? I do still require the background to make narrative sense though...

It sounds like you think that the DM has no ability to veto a player created background unless the rules specifically state that the DM can do so. Do you really think the rules need to spell that out? This just seems like a trivial complaint.

I could see making those usable as a bonus action, and the effect lasts until the beginning of your next turn. You just have to take the bonus action every round to maintain the effect. Make it only available to people proficient with a shield. Or for something simpler, just have shields...

Ask your DM.

No thank you. Those spell cards are a waste of money, and to me this optional rule is a waste of time. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using EN World mobile app