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Shields nerfed in D&D?
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<blockquote data-quote="The Edge" data-source="post: 2738437" data-attributes="member: 33507"><p>It can be surprising how useful a big sheet of hard stuff is at keeping big lumps of hard stuff of soft little you. Haveing a friend that I would frankly call insane, I was once invited to his place for a 'war game' against his brother. Little did I know that I would have to be defending my self from hurled rocks (from those sport catapults used for rats) and a home made flail with giant nails stuck through. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> I hate flails <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> .</p><p>I quickly learned to respect the home made shield they let me have; made of thick coregated plastic stuff, a small tire and some foam, nothing was more important. I was just glad it was my team that had the nail tiped arrows.</p><p></p><p>(Sounds damn weird I know, but its all true. He was a strange friend, from a strange family. What mother lets their sons dig a trench in the garden (abandoned field) and swing leathal flails at each other; but gets angry about a spec of mud on the floor and swearing?)</p><p></p><p>Shields are deadly important (especialy in war), but I understand the technical neede to ballence the fighting styles, unless your campain specificaly wants to remove that ballence. I reckon feats are good though, and would like to see a sheild foucus in core books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Edge, post: 2738437, member: 33507"] It can be surprising how useful a big sheet of hard stuff is at keeping big lumps of hard stuff of soft little you. Haveing a friend that I would frankly call insane, I was once invited to his place for a 'war game' against his brother. Little did I know that I would have to be defending my self from hurled rocks (from those sport catapults used for rats) and a home made flail with giant nails stuck through. :confused: I hate flails :( . I quickly learned to respect the home made shield they let me have; made of thick coregated plastic stuff, a small tire and some foam, nothing was more important. I was just glad it was my team that had the nail tiped arrows. (Sounds damn weird I know, but its all true. He was a strange friend, from a strange family. What mother lets their sons dig a trench in the garden (abandoned field) and swing leathal flails at each other; but gets angry about a spec of mud on the floor and swearing?) Shields are deadly important (especialy in war), but I understand the technical neede to ballence the fighting styles, unless your campain specificaly wants to remove that ballence. I reckon feats are good though, and would like to see a sheild foucus in core books. [/QUOTE]
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