Problem with the Shield of the Hidden lord and a player (Alexandrian Remix)
So, my players are in Elturel for about 2 days (like 10 sessions irl) and the paladin has had the Shield of the Hidden lord (from now on just Shield) for all this time.
The paladin is an incorruptible type character, i've tried many times to get him to use the power of the shield and talk to Gargauth, but alas no luck in there.
I'm roleplaying Gargauth as having it full of this paladin bullshit, not wanting his power for anything, not even saving his friends.
One time the paladin got disarmed from the Shield and Gargauth used this opportunity to sever it's attunement, and after that it refused completely to let him attune or even use the shield.
I wanted to let the others try the shield and so Gargauth started speaking to them and planting ideas that the paladin is not enough and they should be using the shield.
Now the Paladin's player stated in private that he doesn't like this because it's not in the rules that an item (that he says should be a prison for Gargauth) should be able to completely bar him from using it.
He said he thought about it and he doesn't see any way to use the shield that doesn't end badly (whatever that means) and he feels that he's just carrying around an useless clump of metal.
More than anything he wants answer about what to do with the shield (at the start he even rolled a nat 20 on what the shield is, i've told what he could've got from it but obviously not everything) but I don't want to spoil anything i've prepared, i've just told him there are ways to get a "good ending" with the Shield.
Just so you know this player already played DiA with another master, it was not with the Alexandrian Remix tho.
Feel free to ask questions as i've probably explained it poorly.