Hello adventure seekers,

I am attacking a player who is in possession of the shield of defiance. Having that object means that the strength or craft matches the attacker's values if they are lesser ( and not the base value but the current value - that is pretty clear to me )

ATTACKER stats: strength : 4+ object = 5 , craft : 4+ magic object = 5 and a magic object giving + 1 during psychic combat

DEFENSER stats: strength 6, craft 7

now attacker has a warhorse …

so .. Is the shield of defiance good to use ? Or is it invalid ?

please hurry with the response before he divorced me ..

Priest.

Yes, however there are situations where the total between the attacker and the defender would be different, for example if the attacker is the Valkyrie he will have a +1 over the defender even if the defender has the Shield of Defiance since the +1 is added to your attack roll. Keep in mind that the Ancient Artifact also add a bonus to your attack roll but in this case this bonus comes from a magic object and therefore will also be added to the defender.