| Colette Brunel |
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Shield circumstance bonuses really need to stack with other circumstance bonuses, such as cover. As it currently stands, shields are already in shaky territory for fighters and paladins (less so for bards, clerics, and druids who are not tempted by martial two-handed weapons). However, now that I read this in page 291: "If you gain multiple bonuses of the same type, only the highest bonus applies—you don’t add them together. For instance, being behind cover grants you a +2 circumstance bonus to AC. Using Raise a Shield with a light shield grants you a +1 circumstance bonus to AC. If you are both behind cover and raising a light shield, you gain only the +2 circumstance bonus for cover, since it’s the higher."
Shields look even worse, now. They could stand to, at the very least, be stacking-friendly, so that shield-users can make apt use of the environment.