What does the Armour Penalty Check on shields do? I looked through the manual and can't find anything about it. Also, does a shield affect the number of attacks a monk gets?
The armour check penalty reduces your skill total in skills that require movement. Things like hide, move silently and parry. After all it's harder to be silent in a hefty suit of armour!!
Also, unless it's been patched, with the exception of the skill/spell penalties a monk can use a shield and still retain his attacks and abilities normally. So, NO, a shield does not affect the number of attacks a monk gets in NWN...it's a bug.
"I originally assumed monks being able to use a shield was a bug, but one reader mentioned that Monte Cook, the dude who provides to D&D rule questions mentioned shields as an option for monks, thus don't expect them to be 'fixing' this any time soon."
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