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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 92895" data-attributes="member: 1465">My dear friend, forgive me if I may say something wrong. I believe that switching one object or two objects between hands is not handled by the rules and must have a house rule. But in the &quot;Miscellaneous Actions&quot; table in the PHB there are two move-equivalent actions called READY A SHIELD and LOOSE A SHIELD, so exchanging a weapon and a shield I am afraid it is much more difficult. Please let me know what you think, because in our campaign we have decided that moving a weapon to the other empty hand is free, switching two weapons is move-equivalent (but could be even standard) and switching a weapon with a shield requires 2 extra move-equivalent to loose it and then ready it on the other hand, otherwise no AC bonus meanwhile.From the point of view of AC bonus from shield while holding objects with the same hand, check Equipment chapter in PHB, about shields: if it is a large shield, no objects in hand may be carried; if it is a small shield, you can carry one object in the shield's hand (but not use a weapon) but there is no penalty; with a Buckler you can also use a weapon, but if you do you don't get the AC bonus for this round (if you use a bow or xbow, that's the only bad point, but if you use a melee weapon you also have a -1 on attacks).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 92895, member: 1465"] My dear friend, forgive me if I may say something wrong. I believe that switching one object or two objects between hands is not handled by the rules and must have a house rule. But in the "Miscellaneous Actions" table in the PHB there are two move-equivalent actions called READY A SHIELD and LOOSE A SHIELD, so exchanging a weapon and a shield I am afraid it is much more difficult. Please let me know what you think, because in our campaign we have decided that moving a weapon to the other empty hand is free, switching two weapons is move-equivalent (but could be even standard) and switching a weapon with a shield requires 2 extra move-equivalent to loose it and then ready it on the other hand, otherwise no AC bonus meanwhile. From the point of view of AC bonus from shield while holding objects with the same hand, check Equipment chapter in PHB, about shields: if it is a large shield, no objects in hand may be carried; if it is a small shield, you can carry one object in the shield's hand (but not use a weapon) but there is no penalty; with a Buckler you can also use a weapon, but if you do you don't get the AC bonus for this round (if you use a bow or xbow, that's the only bad point, but if you use a melee weapon you also have a -1 on attacks). [/QUOTE]

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