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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ro" data-source="post: 7252405" data-attributes="member: 6890747">The PHB does say it costs 1 action to don or doff a shield, but it also says that it costs 1 action to draw or sheathe a weapon. Dropping any object is free. This would include a shield.If, however, you rule that a shield must take a full action to doff and can't be dropped, that implies that it is not simply held in a hand but rather strapped to an arm, which means there could be a way to use your hand while still wearing the shield.Either way, you can reasonably have a free hand, made possible by a feat just as easily as Dual Wielding does it.Incidentally, with this modification, a melee fighter could benefit from this feature, too.Edit: I excluded heavy weapons from this shield benefit.</blockquote>