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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FadedC" data-source="post: 4431680" data-attributes="member: 55463">Well I'm just saying I wouldn't even attempt to narrate a hit before it was clear that it actually was a hit. It's kind of poor narration to say "the minotaur cuts a bloody slash across you with his battle axe causing you to stagger back in pain and collapse on the floor" only to have to say oh wait....no he doesn't really do that, he instead bounces off your shield. None of this has any effect on rules though and is just a personal style thing, much like I'd say the whole narration section of the DMG is. Anyway I just feel that there are powers with automatic effects , and powers that sometimes fail and that this is a design decision. Taking a non automatic power and making it automatic makes it much stronger then it probably should be, and I have not seen anything that I would personaly consider remote evidence for shield being intended to be an automatic power.  But this is all just my take on it, if wizards ever posted a clarification on it, I'm not 100% sure they would necesarily support my view (though I obviously I feel it's more likely then not). If after all our discussion you still feel that shield is meant to always work and never be wasted then we just view things differently. Perhaps you will turn out to be correct in the long run.</blockquote>