Tower Shield Materials


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Why can't we make tower shields out of adamantine, cold iron, mithral, or dragonhide? Why is it that only darkwood is allowed? this seems like an arbitrary rule that I am going to ignore for my games unless there's some real mechanical reason not to


It's because tower shields are made of wood (page 277), and armor/shields of leather can be replaced with dragonhide, those of metal can be replaced by metals or dragonhide, and those of wood can be replaced with darkwood (page 555).

However, I don't think allowing wood => spiffy metals is likely to break anything. You'll have to do some work on the stats, of course. And an all-metal tower shield is going to have even higher Bulk than a regular one (which is why they're usually wood, I assume).


Fuzzy-Wuzzy wrote:
And an all-metal tower shield is going to have even higher Bulk than a regular one (which is why they're usually wood, I assume).

That's what mithril is for. :B


Ah, I missed that. It does say they are reinforced with metal, though, but I guess the adamantine reinforcement wouldn't add the same benefits as full adamantine, but I could see a dragonhide cover working.

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