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Originally Posted by warhorse11h
I didn't use the barehands damage for the spike shield for two reasons. The spike, while placed to be used for a shield rush would likely not be as useful for a shield bash, hitting your opponent with the edge of the shield. Perhaps I should instead have said that the spike shield could be used two ways, striking with the face of the shield for the spike to bite or with the edge of the shield for impact damage, using the barehands damage +1 for that only. It seems that maneuvering the spike to bite in that way could be awkward. Makes the character designate how he is striking, but it could be workable.
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But, at any ST higher than 8 a normal shield of any size will do as much damage or more than a spike shield, so you'd be a fool to use the spike in most cases. What about if your talent allowed any shield to be used to inflict bare-hand damage, but give the spike shields bare-hand +1?