Shields and combat

[Cuusardo]

Your opponent hits you, barely grazing your shield.

When this happened, I took a point of damage.  I did not realize that my shield was a part of me.  Is this supposed to happen?

[Rindan]

This comes up every now and then.  Yes, this is the way it is.  It is not a bad thing.  If it hadn't been your shield, which as you noted took very little damage, it would have been something else.  Imagine a guy with a club runs up to and bashes you with it.  You stop it dead on with a shield instead of deflecting it like you should.  You stop the majority of the blow, but you can believe it would still hurt.  Shield hits generally are just nicks.  I don't recall ever seeing someone take serious damage from getting hit in the shield.

[Socko]

I've always seen this as the shock coming -through- the shield, reaching your arm/tentacle/mandible.

But, yeah, I'd treat that as a blow that the shield just didn't stop, but eased on the damage factor.

[Dan]

running...

running...

You are exhausted.

The bahamet does freightening damage to your shield.

Yoinks!

There are exceptions, most are out of player combat though. For all intents and purposes Half-Giants are not PCs, they are defined as scary.