Hey can you guys make the bonus AC from raising a shield an item bonus please?
It doesn't make sense thematically or mechanics-wise that using two actions to raise two shields wouldn't make you harder to hit. Other situations where the circumstance bonus of a shield conflicting with another circumstance bonus don't make sense either, for example cover. If you're behind partial cover and raise your shield to protect you in manner that protects the exposed parts of you, you should be harder to hit, so their ac bonuses should stack. If the argument is that the cover supersedes the shield's ability to protect you in some way, then shouldn't your AC bonus from your armor be removed as well, since the cover technically supersedes that as well?
The only way making the bonus of a shield a circumstance bonus works is semantically, you are circumstantially gaining ac based off of another action. But it doesn't make any sense beyond that, especially if the gained AC still has the cost of an action.
