Thrown shields in Ultimate Combat?

[Marc Radle]

I'm at work and don't have my book with me (and Ultimate Combat material is not up on the PFSRD yet) or I'd check on this myself ...

I read something somewhere recently about Ultimate Combat having something about thrown shields? Is that true????

If not in Ultimate Combat, are throwing shields or ruels for throwing shields in a different Paizo product?

Thanks!!!

[hogarth]

There's a throwing shield in the Adventurer's Armory.

[JoelF847]

Yes, they're in UC also. I believe the section on gladiator weapons.

[Cheapy]

They are in UC. +50 gp, something like 1d6 damage, 20' range, performance, and trip.

Yes Marc, you can haz captain murka.

[Ironicdisaster]

And sell War Bonds!

[Caedwyr]

Prior to UC there was an infinite damage routine using throwing shields. Did UC fix this?

[gbonehead]

Caedwyr wrote:

Prior to UC there was an infinite damage routine using throwing shields. Did UC fix this?

Fix it? The only thing that would need to be fixed is broken players.

Really folks. Gaming the system doesn't indicate a broken system - it indicates a broken play style.

[Caedwyr]

For clarification, the combo works like this:

Adventurer's Armory: Shield, Throwing wrote:

Benefit: You can throw the shield as a free action. Neither a shield’s enhancement bonus to AC nor its shield spikes apply to your attack or damage rolls.

Restriction: Tower shields cannot be throwing shields.

Quick Draw Shield wrote:

Quickdraw Shield, Light Wooden or Steel: This light shield is specially crafted with a series of straps to allow a character proficient in shields to ready or stow it on his or her back quickly and easily. If you have a base attack bonus of +1 or higher, you may don or put away a quickdraw shield as a swift action combined with a regular move. If you have the Two-Weapon Fighting feat, you can draw a light or one-handed weapon with one hand and a quickdraw shield with the other in the time it would normally take you to draw one weapon. If you have the Quick Draw feat, you may don or put away a quickdraw shield as a free action.

Note that quickdraw shields are a non-magical type of shield.

Of course, you can limit the number of free actions permitted to be taken, but since a number of the items from Adventurer's Armory are reported to have been reprinted, I was curious if they picked this low-hanging fruit.