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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zuche" data-source="post: 5681624" data-attributes="member: 6682151">I'm fine with letting players make any sort of Athletics check while wearing any sort of shield, as long as the other hand is free, just as I'm fine with how wearing a heavy shield makes it harder to hold your breath. There are more important concerns. I''m more leery about leaving a paladin without heavy armour. As long as there's balance between what they're suffering and what everyone else is suffering, that's fine. If it's going to be done, it should be done where the entire party is similarly disadvantaged: at a public bath, for example, where implements and weapons would be as much out of the question as armor. If you absolutely must force a character to take a -6 or higher penalty to AC for the occasional encounter, you owe the player a favour somewhere else. It's not a matter or roleplaying or roll-playing. It's a matter of being fair.  Now if the paladin's opted to entertain... guests overnight, by all means, consider the occasional ambush if that would be part of the fun for the player. If not, then leave them in peace at such times that they have to put their defenses aside.</blockquote>