Kamai
2010-11-07, 09:26 PM
So, I was poking around, making a Fighter, and with the tower shield proficiency, I got reminded of the garbage that a tower shield is. I tried looking in a couple of different places, and the exotic shields that were put forth didn't seem much better. I want to try to make something usable for a actually useful shield for the tower shield proficiency, but I'm not really sure what to work from for balance.
My first guess was taking the tower shield, and making it not be able to grant cover, or the -2 to attack, and giving it +4 AC/+4 Max Dex/-5 ACP, but I'm not sure if that would even be worth a feat/free fighter proficiency.
Note: I know that eventually AC is worthless as a defense, and no non-magical shield is going to fix that. However, something that works at lower levels that at least makes the fighter's tower shield proficiency not a blank line would be nice. I'm also looking for a shield that makes a good shield, not necessarily a good weapon that happens to give AC.
My first guess was taking the tower shield, and making it not be able to grant cover, or the -2 to attack, and giving it +4 AC/+4 Max Dex/-5 ACP, but I'm not sure if that would even be worth a feat/free fighter proficiency.
Note: I know that eventually AC is worthless as a defense, and no non-magical shield is going to fix that. However, something that works at lower levels that at least makes the fighter's tower shield proficiency not a blank line would be nice. I'm also looking for a shield that makes a good shield, not necessarily a good weapon that happens to give AC.