| Wayronfang |
The truth is, as in looking for a real counterpart...a shield can be carried,worn and wield. I m an avid roleplayer but I also do livea ction battle games( www.sgpr.com). We use a wide variety of shields , punch, strapped ,punch and strapped....and we even use them as back packs.
There are passive shields like the buckler or escudilla, which are small shields or shield like objects worn with armor, but there are active shields like targed shield, round punch shields, some bucklers ,scutum etc that have to be actively wield to be of any real use.
Old AD&D rules were more specific on armor and shield types on that matter, and I guess 3rd is more of an open matter .
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Argothe wrote:So I could theoretically make a character invulnerable to disarm CMs by using armor spikes and a shield? I could even go TWF with that?You can not disarm a shield. Pathfinder only allows you to disarm items that are wielded or carried and a shield is neither wielded nor carried it is worn. In 3.5 you could use disarm to remove worn items so long as they were loosely secured but I am not sure that a shield would be thought of as loosely secured even if Pathfinder had retained that interpretation of disarm.
If you want to remove an opponent’s shield you need to sunder it. Recall that sunder does not have to destroy an item but can simply disable it so that it is unusable until repaired. In this case your sunder would break the straps that hold the shield in place without otherwise ruining the shield. If you repair those straps that shield is usable again.