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<blockquote data-quote="Brista" data-source="post: 818493" data-attributes="member: 11332">Is it not actually rather better than that?For instance, I approach the dragon shield set to 90%. I can pretty much laugh it's fire breath off (+4 saves and the equivalent of improved evasion from the shield)Next it attacks, my shield still being at 90%, I get a +10 AC bonus just from the shield and again am pretty safeNow my go. As a free action I adjust the shield to 50% get my attacks and then afterwards adjust the shield back to 90% again. Even if the dragon wises up and readies an action for when I move my shield I get full attacks against his standard attacks.If I take a Disarm action to knock his wand out of his hand he gets no AOO because I have 50%+ coverI'm genuinely puzzled by these things - they seem utterly broken. What's more it's a real headache thinking about GMing this. I hate house rules but the rules as written seem to force me to be much more creative and tactical with my monsters than I would like to be (I like most of them to simply charge and attack until killed). I don't want every fight to become a simple walkover or some 20 minute chess match of manouevring and counter-manouevring</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brista, post: 818493, member: 11332"] Is it not actually rather better than that? For instance, I approach the dragon shield set to 90%. I can pretty much laugh it's fire breath off (+4 saves and the equivalent of improved evasion from the shield) Next it attacks, my shield still being at 90%, I get a +10 AC bonus just from the shield and again am pretty safe Now my go. As a free action I adjust the shield to 50% get my attacks and then afterwards adjust the shield back to 90% again. Even if the dragon wises up and readies an action for when I move my shield I get full attacks against his standard attacks. If I take a Disarm action to knock his wand out of his hand he gets no AOO because I have 50%+ cover I'm genuinely puzzled by these things - they seem utterly broken. What's more it's a real headache thinking about GMing this. I hate house rules but the rules as written seem to force me to be much more creative and tactical with my monsters than I would like to be (I like most of them to simply charge and attack until killed). I don't want every fight to become a simple walkover or some 20 minute chess match of manouevring and counter-manouevring [/QUOTE]

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