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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3677517" data-attributes="member: 1656">A heavy shield is a one-handed weapon, so if you had a Large heavy shield (as a human), it would be considered a two-handed weapon and you'd need two hands to wield it effectively, taking a -2 penalty on attack rolls.A light shield is a light weapon, so if you had a Small light shield, it would be unusable as a weapon.As far as using it as a shield goes, there's nothing written; I could see a few ways you might elect to rule it in your game:1. It doesn't matter.  Whether it's Large, Medium, or Small, a heavy shield is a heavy shield.  Potential problem - what if someone wants to use a Gargantuan shield?  (This is closest to as-written, I believe.)2. Consider a progression of buckler -> light shield -> heavy shield -> (tower shield).  A Small light shield can be treated as a Medium buckler.  A Large light shield can be treated as a Medium heavy shield.  A Small buckler is unusable.  A Large heavy shield is treated as a tower shield (if you include it in the progression), or unuseable (if you don't).3. A light shield is a light shield, and a heavy shield is a heavy shield, regardless of size, but it is as hard to use a shield as a shield as it would be to wield the shield as a weapon; in other words, a Large heavy shield requires both hands to carry, since it would be considered a two-handed weapon; and a Small light shield is unuseable, since it could not be wielded.  Problem - this doesn't cater for bucklers or tower shields, which can't be used as weapons anyway.4. As 1 or 2, but in addition, an inappropriately-sized shield applies its armor check penalty regardless of shield proficiency.  (This is pulled out of thin air, but serves to reflect in some respect the attack roll penalty inappropriately-sized weapons incur.)Shield spikes don't have a size category; all they do is turn a shield into a spiked shield.  So if you have a Medium heavy shield, and you add spikes, you end up with a Medium heavy spiked shield.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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