Mithral bucklers: A Bard's/Rogue's/Sorcerer's/Wizard's best friend...

[kreynolds]

I dont see how a Buckler would hamper arcane jestures especially if its mithral, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it strap on to your forearm or wrist(cant remember which).

Forearm. Normally, you apply the buckler's arcane spell failure chance, but when it's mithril, there isn't any arcane spell failure chance.

 

[Xarlen]

Now... Why didn't you guys just say that in the first place. You'd think all that would have come out in the earlier debates, and you'd be able to politely inform anyone who choose to requestion it.

I concede.

I did. At the top of the 2nd page, I quoted the very spot.

 

[Iku Rex]

(In the original huge debate about this, we eventually got confirmations from Sean Reynolds, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams.)

Does anyone still have these?

(And are you sure about Jonathan Tweet?)

 

[Feite]

I thought shields provide a shield bonus, not an armor bonus

 

[frankthedm]

Welcome to Enworld.

Topics dated before August 2003 use 3.0 D&D rules, which are slightly different from 3.5 D&D. This subject is one of those that changed with the 3.5 edition. Not a severe change as energy resistance or spell durations, for example, but a notable change none the less.

http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/srd.html 3.0 SRD

 

[Summer-Knight925]

a staff is 2 handed (assuming it is AT THE LEAST a quarterstaff sized weapon) and would then require two hands to use, but casting a spell should only require one hand....

if you really wanna make things cool, create a buckler than can "hold" spell components (like a spell storing item [which would be cool on a buckler] or a bracer of storing type thingy)

then its just looking like a bamf and casting spells ALL WHILE WEARING A SHIELD


and bucklers are worn on the forearm, switching a weapon should be a SWIFT action rather than a free action, and depending on the weapon, should provoke AoP, if its a light weapon then no AoP, if its larger than that, give them an AoP

the only reason I say that is because I once played a Paladin Sorcerer who used a Greatsword...so switching to cast a spell would provok an AoP, let alone casting the spell, needless to say he became a Cast first, Charge and Smite second, ask questions later kinda character....until he met storm giant who liked to bull rush people off cliffs...

 

[Empirate]

Wow, eight and a half years dead, yet resurrected all the same! Welcome back, thread, we would have missed you... even more than your slightly less long dead brother over here.

 

[dagger]

I am ready to start this debate again, which side should I champion?

 

[Jeff Wilder]

[Ah! Necromancy'd!]