If you wear a buckler and use a melee weapon you will take penalties and receive no bonus if you use the buckler hand to attack. If you wear a buckler and use a bow or X-bow you get the AC bonus and do not take penalties If you are wearing any shield you get is AC bonus No one that i have seen is trying to argue "without penalty = AC bonus" So I don't know what you are talking about. Know your terms, and you're in good shape with most of the rules. The "in any case, you lose the AC bonus" does not involve a penalty and is therefore unaffected by the statement of "without penalty". Thus, the "use a bow or crossbow without penalty" language only nullifies the -1 to hit. The loss of a shield bonus is NOT a penalty (as far as the rules are concerned). The -1 to hit incurred by wielding a weapon with your buckler arm is a penalty. PRD wrote: Penalties are numerical values that are subtracted from a check or statistical score.Ī "penalty" is a subcategory of "modifier", and the opposite of "bonus". Please, please post an official response, preferably one that agrees with me so I can move past this. This again refers to offhand weapon use which implies melee weapons as when you use a bow or crossbow with two hands there is no "off hand" In any case, if you use a weapon in your off hand, you lose the buckler's AC bonus until your next turn. Not the use of "off hand weapon" implying melee weapons as well. The above applies to MELEE WEAPONS as Bows and Crossbows receive no penalty. This penalty stacks with those that may apply for fighting with your off hand and for fighting with two weapons. 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. So according to this I can have a Buckler strapped to my arm (thus receiving the bonus) while I use a crossbow with two hands at no penalty. In all other shield descriptions, the act of carrying the shield gives you the AC bonus. I can use a bow or crossbow without ANY penalty. You can use a bow or crossbow without penalty while carrying it. "This small metal shield is worn strapped to your forearm. I am aware that it was cleared up before, but I seem to have lost that thread, so If we can clear this up as "officially" as possible that would be awesome. Hi i am having a conflict about this and I would love to have a game designer comment.
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