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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7753038" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Yup. You need to have raised your shield since the start of your last turn to use it. If you have, you can use your Reaction in response to being hit by an attack to reduce the damage from the triggering attack by an amount equal to the shield’s hardness, and the shield takes that much damage instead.The rest is reminder text about how damage to objects works. If an object takes damage equal to or greater than its hardness in a single hit, it takes a “dent” (essentially a point of structure damage), or two dents if the damage wasvequal to or greater than twice its hardness. An object can take a certain number of dents before breaking (essentially its structure). If an object that has reached its maximum number of dents would take another dent, it becomes “broken”. It’s not entirely clear what the specific effects of being broken are, but presumably you just can’t use it until you get it repaired. If an object would take a dent while broken, it is destroyed and can no longer be repaired.Valeros’s shield has 5 hardness and can take 1 dent before breaking.</blockquote>