Waukeen's Defender

[sirnicklaus]

The shield's description infers that it bestows an armor class bonus of three.  However it only confers a missile armor class bonus of two.  Seeing as the paper doll icon renders as that of a small shield, perhaps this was intentional.  Unless as a small shield it should have no missile protection at all.

[CamDawg]

Yeah, they didn't update the missile AC. Generally how this works is a small shield will provide two effects: one is a general bonus to AC and then a specific missile AC penalty to match. In this case they correctly upped the general AC bonus to 3, but left the missile penalty at -1 instead of upping it to -3 to match. I've got it fixed for the next version.

[sirnicklaus]

2 hours ago, CamDawg said:

Yeah, they didn't update the missile AC. Generally how this works is a small shield will provide two effects: one is a general bonus to AC and then a specific missile AC penalty to match. In this case they correctly upped the general AC bonus to 3, but left the missile penalty at -1 instead of upping it to -3 to match. I've got it fixed for the next version.

So no matter how powerful the magical small shield, it should confer no missile AC at all?  I suppose that works, though the -1 it confers now seems like it could also potentially be appropriate.

[CamDawg]

Yep. The only other magical small shields (Stoutward and Small Shield +1) offer no missile AC bonuses.