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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 192279" data-attributes="member: 996">One way 3E balances is with trade-offs.  If you use your force ring between rounds to get an AC bonus, and whack with your greatsword on your turn, you're trading off the ability to make AoOs for a little AC.  If you use a Bastard Sword, you're trading of damage for the the AC (the lower damage die when you attack, and the two-handed STR bonus when you take an AoO).Since you have to give up something for the (relatively small) AC bonus of the force shield, it doesn't seem inherently unbalancing to allow.OTOH, if you try to use a buckler 'between rounds' while TWF, you're not making any such trade-offs, and I can see how it'd be overruled on balance issues.Now, that says nothing about logic or realism or even playability....</blockquote>