Buckler
The Buckler (🛡️) is a small round wooden shield with a strap to attach it to the forearm.
A common buckler offers a defense bonus of +3 armour points
A rare larger example made from the hardest enchanted woods of fairyland by a master craftsman instead provides a +9 defense bonus.
Buckler (can be used to block or parry/deflect attacks):
🛡️ Block-- [ dPower ] + [ (d)Muscle ] + 3 ( or d3) [+misc]
🛡️ Deflect-- [ dPower ] + [ (d)Sinew ] + 3 ( or d3) [+misc]
🛡️ Deflect*-- [ dAgility ] + [ (d)Sinew ] + 3 ( or d3) [+misc]
Proficiency: A deflection defense requires training to perform reliably. A -2 penalty applies to any that attempts it untrained.
Note: The use of 'dAgility' in the second deflect example above implies an agility roll, which is properly done only when using variable dice sizes for your base dice (ie. a so-called body dice or body stone). In the simpler form of play (seen in the first deflect example), an 'agility roll' is a standard essay made as a dPower roll with Sinew as the primary vital attribute. The Sinew statistic of the character is presumed to be pre-adjusted for character size and mass when originally created.
B.U.K.L.R @ 2.22.3.12.18 @ (2.4.3.3.9) = 57|21|3
B.U.C.K.L.E.R @ 2.21.3.11.12.5.18 @ (2.3.3.2.3.5.9) = 72|27|9
From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”). Merged with buckle + -er.
1. One who buckles something.
2. A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, held in the hand or worn on the arm (usually the left), for protecting the front of the body. In the sword and buckler play of the Middle Ages in England, the buckler was a small shield, used not to cover the body but to stop or parry blows.
3. (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
4. (zoology) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
5. (zoology) The anterior segment of the shell of a trilobite.
6. (nautical) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
... as per https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buckler#Etymology
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