MonkeySage
2015-07-03, 02:43 PM
According to the rules, using a longsword and a buckler together, with the buckler as an offhand weapon, would incur a -8 penalty to attacks with the buckler, and -6 to attacks with the longsword.
RAW doesn't even list damage for the buckler(I made some weapon edits and gave it a d6 to damage, d4 for small creatures).
With two weapon fighting, I think these penalties could be mitigated, but that just doesn't feel very satisfying... In fact I was strongly considering a two weapon fighting overhaul, some of the penalties seem utterly ridiculous...
One of my players fought his father in a recent practice session. His father is a dead baron, and a former knight. He is supposed to be highly trained... and he can't even use his buckler to so much as scratch his opponent because of the ridiculous penalties, hard enough landing a hit with the sword.
I think this counts as a shield bash, but the rules don't even address using bucklers to shield bash.
This is a pathfinder question, but I'd like to see what solutions other games came up with.
RAW doesn't even list damage for the buckler(I made some weapon edits and gave it a d6 to damage, d4 for small creatures).
With two weapon fighting, I think these penalties could be mitigated, but that just doesn't feel very satisfying... In fact I was strongly considering a two weapon fighting overhaul, some of the penalties seem utterly ridiculous...
One of my players fought his father in a recent practice session. His father is a dead baron, and a former knight. He is supposed to be highly trained... and he can't even use his buckler to so much as scratch his opponent because of the ridiculous penalties, hard enough landing a hit with the sword.
I think this counts as a shield bash, but the rules don't even address using bucklers to shield bash.
This is a pathfinder question, but I'd like to see what solutions other games came up with.