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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 8294392" data-attributes="member: 6802951">Flails are just good at bypassing most parries and blocks. But a shield is much better at stopping them that trying to parry with my sword, particularly if the user has a friend who could attack me if my sword gets entangled.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> And as you say, the hammer would be effective against armour, so I'm going to want to have my shield available to intercept attacks.But D&D has never been granular enough to take factors like these into account.What sort of other effects would you want to see?</blockquote>