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Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
A companion thread to talk about the Survivor thread for armor in 5E.
Equipment as a whole in 5e is under-developed. This is just another symptom thereof.i don't think this is enough to spin off into it's own thread and it's armour related so putting it here, does anyone think it's a lost opportunity that shield proficiency isn't treated as more of it's own thing? how functionally it's synonymous with medium armour proficiency 99% of the time? there are several shield exclusive abilities mostly based in feats(shield training, shield master) or fighting styles(interception, protection, dueling (indirectly for sword and board use)) that i think it's a shame they're not treated as their own thing, to have people evaluating the benefits of a class with light armour and shields vs one that only has medium armour.
Even just a shield proficiency feat would be nice.i don't think this is enough to spin off into it's own thread and it's armour related so putting it here, does anyone think it's a lost opportunity that shield proficiency isn't treated as more of it's own thing? how functionally it's synonymous with medium armour proficiency 99% of the time? there are several shield exclusive abilities mostly based in feats(shield training, shield master) or fighting styles(interception, protection, dueling (indirectly for sword and board use)) that i think it's a shame they're not treated as their own thing, to have people evaluating the benefits of a class with light armour and shields vs one that only has medium armour.
it's UA, but that's in the Shield Training feat, it grants a +1 to STR, DEX or CON, shield proficiency, the ability to don or doff a shield as free object action and lets you use a shield as a spell focus.Even just a shield proficiency feat would be nice.