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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MyISPHatesENWorld" data-source="post: 4612573" data-attributes="member: 65684"><p>I disagree. I think the FAQ in this area and in others, such as the double sword and switching hands, does what it should. It makes the game not suck by default. If individual DMs want to nerf this and disallow that,  they're free to do so as long as they find players that will put up with it.         You (and the "lot" of people whom you have elected yourself to represent) don't need to overlook it. You can cobble any rationalization of your house rule together, claim a consensus for your opinion while trying to frame my post as a lone, isolated, nonsensical, view, or do whatever else you want on your way to making a house rule and not allowing it, something which I earlier said was fine for the original poster of the house rule. As I also said, I wouldn't play in that game though.    If you're claiming to be playing by the rules in this area rather than using  house rules, not allowing someone to hold an orb in the hand of their shield arm is clearly wrong. The rules and FAQ both allow it. If you don't want to allow a player to do something he or she wants to do, just man up and say that he can't do it because you don't like it. If he stays, you win (and, maybe for a "lot" of people, you win even if he leaves because you got your way).    You can not consider it to be a house rule, but it clearly is a house rule. Holding an orb in the hand of your shield arm is allowed by the rules as written and that is clarified in the FAQ answer, which describes precisely something you can do while doing so.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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