For wizards it's fairly standard practice to get a mithral buckler and enchant it with something (Death Ward, Energy Immunity, etc).
My question is: is it possible to have a mithral buckler on both arms? Do you get the AC bonus from both bucklers? Would you get the enchantment effect from both bucklers? Would they interfere with your spellcasting ability?
My question stems from the fact that bucklers don't seem to occupy a body slot, they're placed in the same category as other weapons/shields except that they allow you to also wield a weapon but take a -1 on attack rolls.
Wizards don't typically attack, but obviously most spells have somatic components so it intuitively makes sense that the extra weight would interfere with casting ability, but if they're made of mithral, then there is no arcane failure chance.
Is there anything in the rulebook that says that I can't equip two enchanted mithral bucklers, stack their AC bonus, stack their magical enhancements, and still cast spells and wield rods with effectively no penalty?
Best Answer
Bucklers provide shield bonuses to AC. If you have two, you have two shield bonuses to AC, and as typed bonuses they do not stack—you use the higher one.
Any penalties, though, do stack. That means the attack penalties, the armor check penalties, and so on. The arcane spell failure would stack as well, though if both are mithral, 0% + 0% = 0%, so you would still have none.
For the purposes of other bonuses from special properties, though, I see no reason you couldn’t use two. But I would definitely ask the DM to make sure he or she is OK with it because it is kind of unusual.