Heavy steel shield
Properties
Armor properties
Description
You strap a heavy steel shield to your forearm and grip it with your hand. A heavy steel shield is so heavy that you can't use your shield hand for anything else. Whether wooden or steel, a heavy shield offers the same basic protection and attack benefits, though the two versions respond differently to some spells and effects (such as rusting grasp). A druid can use a heavy wooden shield, but not a heavy steel shield.
Shield Bash Attacks: You can bash an opponent with a heavy shield. See "heavy shield" on Table 1–5: Martial Weapons for the damage dealt by a shield bash with a heavy shield. Used this way, a heavy shield is a martial bludgeoning weapon. For the purpose of penalties on attack rolls, treat a heavy shield as a one-handed weapon. If you use your shield as a weapon, you lose its AC bonus until your next turn. An enhancement bonus on a shield does not improve the effectiveness of a shield bash made with it, but the shield can be made into a magic weapon in its own right.
See also
- Absorbing Shield
- Aegis
- Avalanche Shield
- Bastion of the Inheritor
- Belligerent Shield
- Bloodfeast Shield
- Breach Barrier
- Celestial Shield
- Challenging Shield
- Clawhand Shield
- Collapsible Tower
- Dragonslayer's Shield
- Icon of Order
- Lion's Shield
- Living Steel Heavy Shield
- Maelstrom Shield
- Savith's Iron
- Shield of Xin-Undoros
- Shield of the Mazeborn
- Spined Shield
- Spiteful Shield
- Surefooted Shield
- Tempest Shield
- Volcanic Shield
- Wyrmslayer's Shield
Sources
- Core Rulebook
- Ultimate Equipment
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