Bucklers:
Buckler: This small metal shield is worn strapped to your forearm. You can use a bow or crossbow without penalty while carrying it. You can also use your shield arm to wield a weapon (whether you are using an off-hand weapon or using your off hand to help wield a two-handed weapon), but you take a –1 penalty on attack rolls while doing so. This penalty stacks with those that may apply for fighting with your off hand and for fighting with two weapons. In any case, if you use a weapon in your off hand, you lose the buckler's AC bonus until your next turn. You can cast a spell with somatic components using your shield arm, but you lose the buckler's AC bonus until your next turn. You can't make a shield bash with a buckler.
Source
P. 150 Core Rule Book
Question: Is there a wooden version for use by Druids?
no
yes in your other post on your build someone linked the darkwood buckler from CRB, so yes.
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Reading the description of the Darkwood Buckler explains that the magic item is actually a Light Wooden Shield made of Darkwood. That's a grey area as to whether it would be treated with the same rules as a buckler regarding two-handed and ranged weapons, or if it's just a nickname used for a Light Shield made of Darkwood.
I believe you misunderstand the This nonmagical light wooden shield is made out of darkwood part.
Not magic, still a buckler.
It may be called a Darkwood Buckler, but its description says light shield. And its cost is consistent with a darkwood light shield, not what a buckler would cost if made from darkwood. (Granted, the difference is only 2gp.)
So either its name is wrong, or both its description and price are wrong.
If you are playing a PFS game, then perhaps you may find it difficult to locate a wooden buckler for your druid.
In any other game, it's a GM call. My GM allows it. My druid sometimes uses ironwood and sometimes not.
Well, you can still get a Dragonhide Buckler without anyone rulelawyering you out of it's benefit.
My druid's current buckler isn't dragonhide, it was made from some permanent "ironwood" she found. The permanent "ironwood" was part of a module, and she used "wood shape" to make it and then used "masterwork transformation" to make it masterwork... was easy-peasy. :)
Wait, what module? Was that homebrewed? I am genuinely interested.
I don't remember the module's name, or more accurately, I never cared. Actually he munged about five modules together into one epic campaign and took us through all of them.
What I recall from the modules were the following:
1. A diseased black dragon in a swamp with some fort which had a pit of evil.
2. A dungeon with some sort of magic sword which turned a simple lizardman into some superbeing that killed our ranger.
3. A meteorite fall that corrupted a treant who began to terrorize local villages.
4. Another dungeon with a red dragon lair at the end of a maze filled with monsters like trolls and, I think, an Ettin.
Somewhere in that mess of things was a wagon full of ironwood boards. My druid took as many as she could carry and made stuff from them.
BBT, in all honesty I can't say that the stuff was truly part of the module, or if it was, whether it was "permanent" or not. The GM of this campaign is not known for dwelling down into the fine details of the modules. It may have been something he introduced or something that he misunderstood.
All I know is that when he said it was ironwood, I grabbed some and asked him for weeks of game time if it had changed back to normal wood, eventually he said it was permanent ironwood.
Lucky me. :)
BBT, in all honesty I can't say that the stuff was truly part of the module, or if it was, whether it was "permanent" or not. The GM of this campaign is not known for dwelling down into the fine details of the modules. It may have been something he introduced or something that he misunderstood.
All I know is that when he said it was ironwood, I grabbed some and asked him for weeks of game time if it had changed back to normal wood, eventually he said it was permanent ironwood.
Lucky me. :)
I am assuming this is not a PFS character like the one were discussing in the OP? Because an item like that on a chronicle sheet would be ridiculously awesome.
The idea of a Darkwood Buckler not being a Buckler just hurts my head.
i agree. i for one am going to faq it
I think it's just poor description wording, being that a buckler 'is' a "light" shield, and is not directly referencing the :Light shield: category.
It's kinda like spell level and character level, it's an unfortunate word use.
There has always been wooden bucklers in other versions of the game (since UA when it came out) I'm assuming it's just one of those CRB things trying to cut down on word count and all...
On page 119 of the GameMastery Guide it lists a Buckler as being either Wood or Steel.
Either this is contradictory to the CRB or it is your gateway to declaring Bucklers are made of either wood or steel. :)
- Gauss
It would seem silly that light and heavy shields can be made of either wood or metal, but no one could figure out how to make a buckler out of wood :P
Munny, the price of a Darkwood Buckler is 205gp (203 if you go with the 'light shield' buckler). This is 50gp over Masterwork rather than 2gp.
Math:
Buckler: 5gp
Darkwood: (10gp/lb)*5lb = 50gp
Masterwork: 150gp
Total: 205gp.
- Gauss
Just worship Gorum and you are on the save side.
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While we're here, I suppose I'll add something to the discussion.
According to the GameMastery Guide, bucklers may be fashioned of metal or wood (and, subsequently, bone, since bone can be substituted in place of wood).
Hooray.
But, if you're doing PFS, you're still out of luck, because no content from the GameMastery Guide is legal for play, including the rules for making bucklers out of wood.
Striatic - The text you quote is text on what you can make given the scales of a dragon. It does not prevent you from making a dragonhide buckler, as it doesn't override
Armorsmiths can work with the hides of dragons to produce armor or shields of masterwork quality.
(pg 154)
