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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4037733" data-attributes="member: 2067">Yeah, it does assume that, but it's not the same as a unique special ability. Under 4e, Bugbear Stranglers can take people and use them as sheilds. No one else can, really. There's no rules for it. You could make rules up, using the guidelines given, but I'm not really happy if I pay designers to tell me to make stuff up myself.Under 3e, giants often throw rocks (as presented in their stats), and people can throw rocks, too (improvised throwing weapons). That's a continuum -- giants do it better, people can still do it.Like the rules above, would be a continuum -- anyone can use a human shield, Bugbear Stranglers are just especially nasty about it.But the rules as we've seen them are binary -- no one can use a human shield, except Bugbear Stranglers, because they have that ability and nothing else really does. You could give it to others, but it might break your game. Have fun.</blockquote>