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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8144090" data-attributes="member: 6788736">It is unrealistic and I'd never do it as a PC. It's tantamount to bag-o-rats or spamming Guidance before every skill check (as if your PC knows when an ally is about to make a skill check) or any other stupid gamist rubbish.I likely wouldn't DM a player who did any of the above either. I hate that kind of reasoning nearly as much as I hate Players trying to weasel out of alignment violations.And I wouldnt rule 'you cant wear armor around town'. I'd likely just have NPCs harass the heck out of the PC until they stopped. Impose disadvantage on Charisma checks (barring initimidate checks) is a start. Have NPC vendors refuse to serve them. Have them hassled by Cops and detained overnight on suspicion of troublemaking. And so forth.And there is no mechanical balance argument. In 99 percent of cases the shield using PC is in a likely encounter area (i.e. a dungeon, a gloomy ruin or forest, the underdark etc etc) and will have their shield out, and weapon in hand.Sometimes they wont. Sometimes the Wizard wont have Mage armor cast either. It's no big deal.</blockquote>