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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 1922943" data-attributes="member: 18549">Normally, when you are in a wild shape, you are unaffected by the various properties of your armour.  No check penalty, no encumberance, nothing.  You have full use of your natural weapons, and can use all your limbs for whatever you want.  The Wild property allows you to retain the armour bonus and enhancement bonus of your armour and shield.  Shields do not have an armour bonus, but this is likely a 3.0->3.5 oversight.  Fine.The wild property does not indicate that you also retain the armour check penalty, the encumberance, or any other drawback of wearing armour.  Quite simply, you get to keep the bonus but suffer none of the penalties, because the description of the property says only that you can keep the bonus, and makes no mention of anything else.  It's very clear and unambiguous.  The only ambiguity is whether the shield bonus from a shield is kept while in wild shape.  However, it is clear that a shield's enhancement bonus is retained.Anything else is a house rule.Whether this is balanced for a +3 bonus is debatable, but that's the way it is.  I can't speculate on whether this is a balanced property, although pricing for a Wild item starts at about 16000, so it's not cheap.  Certainly not if you want both armour and shield to have it.  Perhaps this is reasonable for a high-level druid.  I can't say, since I haven't played in a game with one.  Perhaps someone else?</blockquote>

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