A few questions about the buckler..

[IcyCool]

The person who wrote the feat said so in the feat description, so I certainly think not.

Where? I don't see it in the feat anywhere.

 

[Iku Rex]

Where? I don't see it in the feat anywhere.

Benefit: When you attack with a weapon in your off hand, you may still apply your buckler's shield bonus to your Armor Class.

(And before you tell me that a character wielding a weapon two-handed [somehow] isn't attacking with a weapon in his off hand, take a look at the buckler description in the PH and ask yourself if you really want two-handed fighters to get the buckler's shield bonus even without the feat... )

 

[IcyCool]

Benefit: When you attack with a weapon in your off hand, you may still apply your buckler's shield bonus to your Armor Class.

(And before you tell me that a character wielding a weapon two-handed [somehow] isn't attacking with a weapon in his off hand, take a look at the buckler description in the PH and ask yourself if you really want two-handed fighters to get the buckler's shield bonus even without the feat... )

I see what you are getting at. My arguement is based on the flavor text of the feat, which is, admittedly, a bad place to be arguing from.

 

[Matafuego]

Sorry to hijack...
But can't a THF guy buy one of those "animated" shields?
I know it isn't a feat and it's expensive but it always striked me as odd.

 

[Tatsukun]

Sorry to hijack...
But can't a THF guy buy one of those "animated" shields?
I know it isn't a feat and it's expensive but it always striked me as odd.

Well, if you use an animated tower shield, you take a penalty to attacks, just like you were using a tower shield.

One of the things in 3.5 that hurts my brain is if a TWF with a buckler gets the -1 to attacks. That'd be odd because a TWF with a small or large shield doesn't get a penalty.

Since the penalty is "due to the extra weight on your arm", I would say a TWF PC doesn’t suffer the -1 for using a buckler.

-Tatsu

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

One of the things in 3.5 that hurts my brain is if a TWF with a buckler gets the -1 to attacks. That'd be odd because a TWF with a small or large shield doesn't get a penalty.

... because he can't attack at all with that hand, without using the shield itself as a weapon.