Jinnai

no bad stuff for good? atleast a 5% chance for something bad would have been appropriate.

Better not take to long or you'll start sounding as bad as me.

Bucklers were used in tandem with broadswords in fencing.  Broadswords are pretty heavy and I'm pretty sure noblemen weren't wearing the bucklers because they looked cool.   A buckler is a lot sturdier than than you give it credit to be.

I did not make them out to be flimsy, but they have limits.

You did not see noblemen trying to block claymores with those bucklers, or warhammers or even a two-handed war axe for the most part. For all the wieght of a broadsword, and i've wielded one, and not one of those cheap lighter versions made today, its nothing to a warhammer, a large full iron mace or claymore.

If i'm well trained at using daggers I can block the same way every weapon, but you know we're not going to be giving weapons for being so skilled at daggers, even though its appropriate. Why? Because the level of expertise required would be extrodinatly high. The same is true for a buckler as well.

You'd really haveto specialize if fighting style with bucklers only to be able to block any kind of melee attack like that without any risk of injury and do it quite well.

Well as far as the original concept goes, those two things i listed were what was meant in PnP if you can use weapon types, which we can.

However i'd give you that enchanted buckers might be able to block bludgeoning weapons, but not the normal one. None of them should give any bonuses to piercing weapons though. This part is specfically mentioned in several areas in both 2nd and 3rd.