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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wikidogre" data-source="post: 438674" data-attributes="member: 4250">Physics wise, it sounds like a huge stress on one mans arm, you know holding a large steel shield with a 35 pund G-nome hiding behind it. But in a fantasy world, and having a character with a 24 Strength, and a shield made of Mithral which halves the normal weight, making a large steel(Mithral) shield weigh about 7 lbs. So physically people are saying that a character with the Strength of a Giant is not going to be able to hold around 42 lbs, on one arm without trouble?  umm i think not. By far in real life i myself can hold 40 lbs weights at an angle as if i where holding a shield, for extended amounts of time. So as for checks to see if the Fighter can hold the weight and or suffer from it, i feel thier is no reason to penalize him. Besides i do have the Shield Expert feat, yes i know it allows me to strike with the shield and retain ac bonus, but i think that thier would be some degree of control thier.*Ok, i have just said my thoughts, an yes i am the player of the Fighter in question, but if the Dm rules otherwise, i am all for it, it is his game!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Peace</blockquote>