I have a HUMAN fighter, 18/27 strength. He's wielding a long sword, but the game won't let him equip a shield. No matter what he wields, it says "two handed weapon equipped". WTF? :pissed1:

#1 Are you sure it's a longsword and not something 2 handed that looks like a longsword. (I doubt it but I felt like asking anyway.)

#2 do you have a 2 handed weapon in one of your other weapon slots?

I have a bow in my third slot. I'll have to try later tonight.

The bow is your problem. Unfortunately if there is ANY two-handed weapon in your quick slots you can't equip a shield. Stinks, don't it?

Yup, that was it. Put my bow away and shield works. Kinda defeats the purpose though, since I use bow so often.
Haven't played BG in over a year. I hate forgetting little things like this. [img]graemlins/awcrap.gif[/img]

You can equip a shortbow in your quick weapon slots and still use the shield. It's only the longbow that causes the problem AFAIK.

nope, with a shortbow u cant equip a shield either.

Dace, as I've said, "ANY two handed weapons in the quick slots will do the trick".

i played through BG1 TOTSC 3 times and never used a shield once on my main character for that simple reason. i like to have the ability to use a long bow in case i have to use it from a distance to disrupt a spell when my other party members arent close enough.

I suppose you could always swap them round during combat, but thats just cheesy. I dont give my guy a bow, I just have say imoen or kivan etc. (basically whoever i've got thats good with a bow) do that job.