The Tower Shield Specialist archetype has a "Tower Shield Training" that, when using a tower shield, boosts armor training. An aspect of this is the following:
When equipped with a tower shield you increase the max dex bonus of your armor by the following:
Level 3: +2
Level 7: +3
Level 11: +4
There is no mention made of the max dex bonus of the tower shield (+3) being raised as well. This would mean imply that, unless you're wearing full plate, this effect would have no use when "boosted" by the tower shield.
The other possibility is that the sentence is incomplete. perhaps you increase the max dex bonus of your armor *and* tower shield? That's the answer I'm hoping for. If that isn't the case, what is the intention of a rule that invalidates itself?
I need a definitive answer for PFS. Were this a home game, I would just house rule a tower shield max dex bonus increase.
Jesus. There's gonna be a thread for this every week?
The feature says it increases the Max Dex of armor. Shields are armor. Ergo ipso facto QED.
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The answer is right in Page 151 of the CRB. It lists Armor, and in that list, lie Shields. Shields are armor, things that affect armor affect shields. End of discussion.
The answer is right in Page 151 of the CRB. It lists Armor, and in that list, lie Shields. Shields are armor, things that affect armor affect shields. End of discussion.
Except it isn't. I just asked James Jacobs and he directed me here because he wasn't comfortable answering an official rules question. If it was so open and shut, he'd have answered a different way, perhaps with the information you did. You're being unnecessarily aggressive. Please be respectful to others.
Of course he's going to say that, he's in creative. Armor and Shields sound like different categories of stuffs if you think with your right hemisphere.
But you are asking a rules question. Rules: on the CRB. Page 151. Check it out.