I think that it's safe to assume that the sort of people who would play a 20-year-old D&D game have heard of medieval heraldry. Regardless, heraldry doesn't justify, say, a red and gold character with a lime-green and purple shield; that's just hideous.
I think that it's safe to assume that the sort of people who would play a 20-year-old D&D game have heard of medieval heraldry. Regardless, heraldry doesn't justify, say, a red and gold character with a lime-green and purple shield; that's just hideous.
Do you, sir, insult the honor of my Knight of San Francisco, who marches forth in the service of Lord Barney the dragonborn?!?
Why would a shield you find in the game happen to be the same colour as the clothes you wear? Would you have time to coordinate your wardrobe, or apply paint?
Why would a shield you find in the game happen to be the same colour as the clothes you wear? Would you have time to coordinate your wardrobe, or apply paint?
At "birth," I get to choose my race, gender, skin color, hair color, and physical and mental attributes, so painting a shield shouldn't be off the table.
Only parts of helmets (wings, plumes) and shields (panels) default to the character major/minor colors if none is specified. Outside of those, if you don't specify a color for a weapon or armor or other bits of helmets/shields they just use a default metal/leather color as appropriate.
The top row is how it works for helmets and shields with colors specified and the bottom row without.
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And your BG2 shield and helm look ridiculous too. BG1 Flaming Fist helm (with matching plume) forever! Kagain's helm was tight too.
The top row is how it works for helmets and shields with colors specified and the bottom row without.