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Can a steel shield be equipped with wooden spikes?
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We found out our party might be fighting vampires. It could be cool if my shield-bashing fighter affixed wooden shield spikes on heavy steel shield. Can this be a thing, RAW?
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We found out our party might be fighting vampires. It could be cool if my shield-bashing fighter affixed wooden shield spikes on heavy steel shield. Can this be a thing, RAW?
pathfinder rules-as-written shield special-materials
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I added the [special-materials] tag, since the property we’re interested in (especially effective against vampires) is not a real-world property of wood, even though wood is, obviously, a real-world material.
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We found out our party might be fighting vampires. It could be cool if my shield-bashing fighter affixed wooden shield spikes on heavy steel shield. Can this be a thing, RAW?
pathfinder rules-as-written shield special-materials
edited 56 mins ago
KRyan
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asked 1 hour ago
FrancisJohn
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We found out our party might be fighting vampires. It could be cool if my shield-bashing fighter affixed wooden shield spikes on heavy steel shield. Can this be a thing, RAW?
pathfinder rules-as-written shield special-materials
pathfinder rules-as-written shield special-materials
edited 56 mins ago
KRyan
206k23511897
asked 1 hour ago
FrancisJohn
3,48531340
edited 56 mins ago
KRyan
206k23511897
asked 1 hour ago
FrancisJohn
3,48531340
edited 56 mins ago
KRyan
206k23511897
edited 56 mins ago
KRyan
206k23511897
edited 56 mins ago
KRyan
206k23511897
206k23511897
asked 1 hour ago
FrancisJohn
3,48531340
asked 1 hour ago
FrancisJohn
3,48531340
asked 1 hour ago
FrancisJohn
3,48531340
3,48531340
1
I added the [special-materials] tag, since the property we’re interested in (especially effective against vampires) is not a real-world property of wood, even though wood is, obviously, a real-world material.
– KRyan
56 mins ago
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I added the [special-materials] tag, since the property we’re interested in (especially effective against vampires) is not a real-world property of wood, even though wood is, obviously, a real-world material.
– KRyan
56 mins ago
1
1
I added the [special-materials] tag, since the property we’re interested in (especially effective against vampires) is not a real-world property of wood, even though wood is, obviously, a real-world material.
– KRyan
56 mins ago
I added the [special-materials] tag, since the property we’re interested in (especially effective against vampires) is not a real-world property of wood, even though wood is, obviously, a real-world material.
– KRyan
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The rules, as written, are completely silent on the subject of what materials are used in the construction of shield spikes. If you want a RAW answer, that’s the best you’ll get: the answer is undefined, RAW.
Personally, I always assumed they were metal, but I don’t have any particular problem with allowing them to be wood. Especially if they were some fancy, harder wood, and clearly if you used the ironwood spell there would be zero difficulty, from my perspective. Another GM might require some kind of fancier, harder wood, or even require ironwood.
The other thing that’s unclear to me is if you can add shield spikes to an already-existing shield. The rules don’t say; I kind of always assumed that a shield and a spiked shield were two separate items and you couldn’t convert from one to the other, but again, that’s not written anywhere. I guess the fact that shield spikes are in the “Extras†section might imply they could be added on later? Anyway, I certainly wouldn’t block a player from doing so if they wanted. But again, that’s not RAW; RAW is just silent.
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1 Answer
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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up vote
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accepted
The rules, as written, are completely silent on the subject of what materials are used in the construction of shield spikes. If you want a RAW answer, that’s the best you’ll get: the answer is undefined, RAW.
Personally, I always assumed they were metal, but I don’t have any particular problem with allowing them to be wood. Especially if they were some fancy, harder wood, and clearly if you used the ironwood spell there would be zero difficulty, from my perspective. Another GM might require some kind of fancier, harder wood, or even require ironwood.
The other thing that’s unclear to me is if you can add shield spikes to an already-existing shield. The rules don’t say; I kind of always assumed that a shield and a spiked shield were two separate items and you couldn’t convert from one to the other, but again, that’s not written anywhere. I guess the fact that shield spikes are in the “Extras†section might imply they could be added on later? Anyway, I certainly wouldn’t block a player from doing so if they wanted. But again, that’s not RAW; RAW is just silent.
answered 57 mins ago
KRyan
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up vote
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The rules, as written, are completely silent on the subject of what materials are used in the construction of shield spikes. If you want a RAW answer, that’s the best you’ll get: the answer is undefined, RAW.
Personally, I always assumed they were metal, but I don’t have any particular problem with allowing them to be wood. Especially if they were some fancy, harder wood, and clearly if you used the ironwood spell there would be zero difficulty, from my perspective. Another GM might require some kind of fancier, harder wood, or even require ironwood.
The other thing that’s unclear to me is if you can add shield spikes to an already-existing shield. The rules don’t say; I kind of always assumed that a shield and a spiked shield were two separate items and you couldn’t convert from one to the other, but again, that’s not written anywhere. I guess the fact that shield spikes are in the “Extras†section might imply they could be added on later? Anyway, I certainly wouldn’t block a player from doing so if they wanted. But again, that’s not RAW; RAW is just silent.
answered 57 mins ago
KRyan
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up vote
3
down vote
accepted
up vote
3
down vote
accepted
The rules, as written, are completely silent on the subject of what materials are used in the construction of shield spikes. If you want a RAW answer, that’s the best you’ll get: the answer is undefined, RAW.
Personally, I always assumed they were metal, but I don’t have any particular problem with allowing them to be wood. Especially if they were some fancy, harder wood, and clearly if you used the ironwood spell there would be zero difficulty, from my perspective. Another GM might require some kind of fancier, harder wood, or even require ironwood.
The other thing that’s unclear to me is if you can add shield spikes to an already-existing shield. The rules don’t say; I kind of always assumed that a shield and a spiked shield were two separate items and you couldn’t convert from one to the other, but again, that’s not written anywhere. I guess the fact that shield spikes are in the “Extras†section might imply they could be added on later? Anyway, I certainly wouldn’t block a player from doing so if they wanted. But again, that’s not RAW; RAW is just silent.
answered 57 mins ago
KRyan
206k23511897
The rules, as written, are completely silent on the subject of what materials are used in the construction of shield spikes. If you want a RAW answer, that’s the best you’ll get: the answer is undefined, RAW.
Personally, I always assumed they were metal, but I don’t have any particular problem with allowing them to be wood. Especially if they were some fancy, harder wood, and clearly if you used the ironwood spell there would be zero difficulty, from my perspective. Another GM might require some kind of fancier, harder wood, or even require ironwood.
The other thing that’s unclear to me is if you can add shield spikes to an already-existing shield. The rules don’t say; I kind of always assumed that a shield and a spiked shield were two separate items and you couldn’t convert from one to the other, but again, that’s not written anywhere. I guess the fact that shield spikes are in the “Extras†section might imply they could be added on later? Anyway, I certainly wouldn’t block a player from doing so if they wanted. But again, that’s not RAW; RAW is just silent.
answered 57 mins ago
KRyan
206k23511897
answered 57 mins ago
KRyan
206k23511897
answered 57 mins ago
KRyan
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answered 57 mins ago
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I added the [special-materials] tag, since the property we’re interested in (especially effective against vampires) is not a real-world property of wood, even though wood is, obviously, a real-world material.
– KRyan
56 mins ago