A shield is strapped to your arm. Light shields even allow you to hold something in your hand.After 2 years of play I still don't get the "shield as arm slot" rule. No matter how you look at it, it just doesn't make any sense. You're obviously holding it in your off-hand, so why not use the off-hand slot??
It just bugs me.
PHB p.213 said:When you use a shield, you
strap it to an arm and sometimes use the hand on that
arm—your shield arm and shield hand.
After 2 years of play I still don't get the "shield as arm slot" rule. No matter how you look at it, it just doesn't make any sense. You're obviously holding it in your off-hand, so why not use the off-hand slot??
It just bugs me.
A shield is strapped to your arm. Light shields even allow you to hold something in your hand.
None of the shield enchantments are even worth thinking about either. That however may largely be the fault of IAoP.