Ability to interact with Shield-specific AC?

[Basiliv]

Hey folks!

Maybe this falls in the realm of a feature request, not sure...

AFAICT, there is currently no way to interact specifically with the shield bonus to AC for NPCs, short of manually changing their AC, yes? I realize that I can add an effect to just reduce the AC: -2, but that becomes a lot more inaccurate for magic shields, and even more so as I move to the A5E rules.

And for PCs the current answer is to unequip the shield, so I can't trigger this via an effect from an NPC, correct?

A5E complications for this:
- Light shields are +1 AC, Medium +2, Heavy/Tower +2 and possibly plus an expertise die to AC (let's ignore that expertise die for now)
- The weapon property of Parrying Immunity ignores armor bonuses from shields

Thoughts? Suggestions (extensions?)? Feature Request?

[LordEntrails]

In core 5E there is nothing you haven't mentioned. This is because NPCs don't have equipment, they just have various stats that incorporate their equipment (attacks, AC, etc).

I don't have or use A5E though, so you might want to ask in the thread for it though as it might have capabilities; Level Up Advanced 5e (Overview and Bugs) (fantasygrounds.com) (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?72803-Level-Up-Advanced-5e-(Overview-and-Bugs))

[Basiliv]

Will do, thanks much!

[Zacchaeus]

Apart from manually changing the AC of the NPC the only method is to use an effect such as you say.

[Basiliv]

Apart from manually changing the AC of the NPC the only method is to use an effect such as you say.

And unequipping (or an effect like AC: -2) is the only way for PCs in A5E too?

[Zacchaeus]

And unequipping (or an effect like AC: -2) is the only way for PCs in A5E too?

Yes.

EDIT: Another way of course is to add to the attackers attack roll with ATK: x

[Basiliv]

Yes.

EDIT: Another way of course is to add to the attackers attack roll with ATK: x

Gotcha — thanks much