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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8787778" data-attributes="member: 6877472">I really despise how bland and simultaneously persnickety shield rules are in 5e.  I mean, ok.  If you're a dual wielder, you can take a Feat to instantly unsheathe two weapons at a moment's notice.  Or sheathe them again, if you want to do something else.If you're a shield user, however, and you get jumped, unless the shield was hanging onto your arm, making it useless for doing anything else, you need to use your object interaction to draw a weapon, then an action to "doff" a shield.If you need to switch weapons, climb something, get dropped into a lake and need to swim, you can let go of your weapon or sheathe it as your free interaction, but there's always this delay as you take an action to remove the shield...and presumably another interaction to put it someplace while you're not using it!And heaven help you if you're a Cleric, who, as a basically melee range spellcaster, is pretty much intended to use a shield.  Even if your shield is your focus, you still need to go through interaction to sheathe/interaction to unsheathe gyrations to cast a healing spell!Pretty strange for a class that was intended to smack a guy with a mace when they had nothing better to do, if you ask me.All for a +2 bonus to AC that doesn't do anything else without a Feat that gives you....a bonus action shove and the ability to use your reaction once in a blue moon.Oh and the only Fighting Style that uses a shield not only gives you another use for your reaction, but was basically made obsolete by Interception!I'd claim WotC doesn't like shields very much, but then I remember Paizo exists!</blockquote>

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