Hey-
shield use is great. What if it was greater?
Especially as a pure I have a difficult time seeing myself picking up a shield when runestaves exist. However, I'm interested in some enticement.
What if padding could be given to shields, and some portion of the CER of that padding was applied on hit? Half? Whole? Something like that would give me a vehicle to put some more padding on my character, and encourage sword and board defensive styles which seem to be out of vogue for nearly all professions.
~Licel
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Re: Make me train in shield use- armor padding for shields
08/14/2019 08:34 AM CDT
Make shields great again.
Sweet is the sound of the pouring rain,
And the stream that falls from the hill to plain.
Better than rain or rippling brook,
Is a mug of beer inside this Took.
Sweet is the sound of the pouring rain,
And the stream that falls from the hill to plain.
Better than rain or rippling brook,
Is a mug of beer inside this Took.
RATHBONER
Re: Make me train in shield use- armor padding for shields
08/15/2019 08:12 AM CDT
Shields need a bunch of fancy scripts for them rather than mechanics. Mechanically the only way to improve shields is to make death hurt again.
OM1E5GA
Re: Make me train in shield use- armor padding for shields
08/15/2019 09:47 AM CDT
<Shields need a bunch of fancy scripts for them rather than mechanics. Mechanically the only way to improve shields is to make death hurt again.>
I was going to chime in and say they had some already.... but the only one I can come up with is the one on my warrior's shield that morphs into a bracer and back again. So, maybe they do need a few more.
Maybe a script to changes shields into runestaves and back again would be a boon for pures...
Starchitin, the OG
A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.
I was going to chime in and say they had some already.... but the only one I can come up with is the one on my warrior's shield that morphs into a bracer and back again. So, maybe they do need a few more.
Maybe a script to changes shields into runestaves and back again would be a boon for pures...
Starchitin, the OG
A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.
BBRODRIGUEZ
Re: Make me train in shield use- armor padding for shields
08/15/2019 09:24 PM CDT
| What if padding could be given to shields, and some portion of the CER of that padding was applied on hit? Half? Whole? Something like that would give me a vehicle to put some more padding on my character, and encourage sword and board defensive styles which seem to be out of vogue for nearly all professions. |
There are some crit padded shields out there....at least at one point in time some were out on the loose.
I don't remember where they came from nor the reason behind it (if there was one), but they didn't do anything different than a normal shield. The padding didn't help out at all since it was on a shield and not actual wearable armor.
KRAKII
Re: Make me train in shield use- armor padding for shields
08/16/2019 08:29 AM CDT
The biggest reason that was done was to make them (at the time) unable to be player-Enchanted. The merchant didn't have any other way to do it.
RATHBONER
Re: Make me train in shield use- armor padding for shields
08/16/2019 09:42 AM CDT
>Maybe a script to changes shields into runestaves and back again would be a boon for pures...
A script to turn a runestaff into a shield is pretty small beer as fancy runestaff scripts go. Where's the scripts that power up your shield from the souls of enemies that you've bashed with them?
an impressively large shield with a boss shaped in the form of a lesser orc's head
The boss on your shield suddenly bursts into life.
A lesser orc reaches out from your shield and tweaks the nose of a forest troll. That'll show it who's boss!
As the gore from your bash soaks into the lesser orc's head, the boss twists and morphs taking on the form of a greater krynch!
A script to turn a runestaff into a shield is pretty small beer as fancy runestaff scripts go. Where's the scripts that power up your shield from the souls of enemies that you've bashed with them?
an impressively large shield with a boss shaped in the form of a lesser orc's head
The boss on your shield suddenly bursts into life.
A lesser orc reaches out from your shield and tweaks the nose of a forest troll. That'll show it who's boss!
As the gore from your bash soaks into the lesser orc's head, the boss twists and morphs taking on the form of a greater krynch!
KRAKII
Re: Make me train in shield use- armor padding for shields
08/16/2019 10:09 AM CDT
"Where's the scripts that power up your shield from the souls of enemies that you've bashed with them?" -- Rathboner
I liked the books & modules more to read for fun ideas than to actually use, but one of the items in the "Arduin" series of D&D supplements always caught my eye as being neat: a large shield named "Jaws".
Everything inside the metallic rim was just a giant maw, and if you shield-bash or something ran into the shield (like a weapon clash) there was a chance of it taking a bite out of the object (including the weapon, now with more breakage).
Down side was that the thing panted, constantly, so you couldn't exactly hide effectively. :)
I liked the books & modules more to read for fun ideas than to actually use, but one of the items in the "Arduin" series of D&D supplements always caught my eye as being neat: a large shield named "Jaws".
Everything inside the metallic rim was just a giant maw, and if you shield-bash or something ran into the shield (like a weapon clash) there was a chance of it taking a bite out of the object (including the weapon, now with more breakage).
Down side was that the thing panted, constantly, so you couldn't exactly hide effectively. :)
