Ring of Force shield

[Brocktar]

Can you start your turn deactivating RoFS, attack, then activate their ring just before the end of their turn?

[The Elusive Jackalope]

Yes. Activating and deactivating the ring are both free actions.

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

Brocktar wrote:

Can you start your turn deactivating RoFS, attack, then activate their ring just before the end of their turn?

I believe that's how it's written. It's a "casters shield." The activation/deactivation speed is sort of it's point.

[Brocktar]

I'm not using it as a caster shield, but so that I can swing a two-handed weapon and still have a +2 AC when not attacking.

[Archaeik]

Brocktar wrote:

I'm not using it as a caster shield, but so that I can swing a two-handed weapon and still have a +2 AC when not attacking.

Yes, but you won't be able to make AoOs 2 handed.

[Scott Romanowski]

What if your opponent readies an action to attack as soon as you deactivate the ring? No +2 AC.

[ArmouredMonk13]

You can take attacks of opportunity with the shield bash, since you wield it as a shield. Or you could spike your armor. Its cheese with the first one, and table variation applies, but you can use it for a +2 AC. Or you can get Quick Draw and a Quickdraw shield to rapidly draw/sheathe your shield as a free action each round, and then make it +5 to get more AC.

[Clectabled]

Or , you could use a 1 handed weapon with 2 hands, getting the full bennies of 2 handed fighting and still get the AOO with the weapon as if you were playing sword and board.

Best of both worlds.

[Clectabled]

Scott Romanowski wrote:

What if your opponent readies an action to attack as soon as you deactivate the ring? No +2 AC.

PLEASE let my opponents ready an action to attack when I deactivate the ring.... Please...

[ryric]

Eh, I'd rule that you never actually get the +2 AC in that case...conceptually there is no time "between" your turns. From your PC's point of view, what you are doing is this:

Deactivate your ring
Attack a bunch
Activate your ring
Immediately deactivate it again
Attack a bunch

and so on.

[gnomersy]

ryric wrote:

Eh, I'd rule that you never actually get the +2 AC in that case...conceptually there is no time "between" your turns. From your PC's point of view, what you are doing is this:

Deactivate your ring
Attack a bunch
Activate your ring
Immediately deactivate it again
Attack a bunch

and so on.

Uh no conceptually combat is fluid this would be represented as you activating the shield to intercept your enemies attacks and then deactivating it to level your own blows in, it would just happen much more often than the game mechanics show it. It's really not that complicated.

That aside rules wise yes you can do this it is valid of course if you're using a 2h weapon you can't make attacks of opportunity with it.

[Komoda]

Ryic, if say if I dropped my shield at the end of one turn and donned it at the beginning of the next, would you count me as with a shield at that time since there is really no time between my turns?

Like Gnomersy said, a lot more is going on than the mechanics.