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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7701809" data-attributes="member: 4937">That was my immediate impression.  Normally, when I hold a shield, I'm balancing the weight of it with my body behind it - one foot forward, the other back, in a fencing type posture.  And normally shields are made of something that is relatively light weight.  You don't make solid disks of steel and use them as a shield.  Typically you are going to make a tower shield out of thin wood, covered with leather or strong cloth, and then edged in thin steel or bronze with a thin steel boss in the middle.   This shield on the other hand is made like a modern snow plow.  As I said, each looks to weigh about 8000 lbs.  Even if you had magic to half the weight of the shields, it would still be too much.  Imagine the posture these shields imply, with both shields out in front of you locked together, and you realize that it's just too awkward to carry any large fraction of your weight in front of you like that no matter how strong you are.  You can't balance the weight by rotating your body.  You'd have to have a splayed posture and take mincing little baby steps to move.  You'd be continually on the verge of toppling forward, and the heavier the shield is relative to your own body weight the worse it would be.   Even with magic reducing the weight by half, each of the shields weigh more than the giant does.  Imagine carrying two 250 lb shields in front of you.  Even if you are some super strong person that can carry 500 lbs, you can't move quickly in that posture.Again, the take away I got immediately from this picture was pity.  Crutches indeed.</blockquote>

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