Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:54 pm
He plays with them because he doesn't have anyone else to play with. Until recently he has been the dm for most games that he has played in. He welcomes a chance to be a player.
Frank, isn't that a throwing spear that's being held, rather than a weapon to be wielded along with the sword in melee?FrankTrollman wrote:Many armies have used bucklers as part of their standard equipment. Off the top of my head, there were many such armies in India and Central Asia.virgil wrote:Not a clue, because I have essentially zero knowledge about what you're referring to, and my Google-fu is apparently weak tonight (which is a first).FrankTrollman wrote:Wait, what? How did the armies of the Maharajah work then?
But yes, there have historically been people who fought with a weapon in the hand that the buckler was on:
And yes, real people manage to really do that in modern days.
-Username17
Given how much hand waving dickery your DM is doing, I strongly suspect that your DM simply fudged it. Not having realized that a 9th level wizard with a bunch of 3rd level warriors was perhaps somewhat unfair to drop on a 4th level party, he simply had him fall over when an attack hit. For fuck's sake, alchemist fire only does a d6 of fire damage, how is that supposed to stop a 9th level Dragon Wizard?virgil wrote: In other news, I don't know how our 5th level party (had a guest PC, some crappy fighter I think) managed to kill that dragon disciple with its handful of 3rd level soldier mind-slaves. It opened with a breath weapon from invisibility (bringing me from full to -2, only having 31hp) and threw around dominate person and went through several invisibility spells. It was nearly two minutes in-game, when three of us were mind-slaves, I was under blindness/deafness, when the bard finally threw a lucky alchemist's fire that killed the bugger.
Assholes who fuck with sheilds deserve to be beaten until the gore pours onto the pavement.Juton wrote:How does he think shields should work in D&D? I remember a rather vindictive DM who deprived shield AC to characters who where flat footed. Shields in D&D suck, I've tried for a long time to find some combo that makes for an awesome character, but nerfing shields is like nerfing the Monk, it's just a sign of a DM being an asshole.virgil wrote:The prior DM hated bucklers because it allowed wizards to wield shields, which he didn't approve of (didn't fit his mental image). This DM, however, is actually banning bucklers on the argument of realism; as no historical account of bucklers (or any shield, if I recall) ever showed them working like they do in D&D.