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Message: <blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 951404" data-attributes="member: 1325">Well your build is "better" than the tweeked cheese Ranger/Paladin build. But if you allow this, how do you prevent the tweeked cheese? This actually came up in my game, one of the players was all excited about playing such a character, essentially due to the cheese. "I can dual wield two shields and shield bash everyone around."Me, I didn't really like the idea, seems kind of corny, but, whatever floats his boat. However the other players revolted, and pelted him with dice. See, that player is well known in a game for his cheese, and this cheese was just stretching the disbelief of the other players too far. So we threw it out. I wonder if Captain America would have been such a hit if he wielded two shields? Would seem a bit of nut if you ask me. A case for the looney bin. I guess you just don't see it this way.Now, I'm no martial art expert, but wielding two shields is hardly a threatening posture. Part of the "shield bash" manuever is surely the ability to take your opponent unawares, as he concentrates on avoiding your pointy weapon. But with two shields, he doesn't have to concern himself about that, and can concentrate on splitting your head. Two shields are surely going to interfere with each other as well, being rather bulky. If you can come with some real life examples, of dual-wielded large/small shields actually used in battle, I might reconsider my position. But until then, I'll just consider this a quirk of the rule set.</blockquote>

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