Shield Fighting Style

Style

Cost: 5 Character Points

You are skilled at using your shield to defend yourself, and you understand that shields are not just for protection but also for offense. While you are wielding a shield with which you are proficient, you gain the following benefits:

• If you are wielding a heavy shield, you are no longer required to wield a weapon with the light property in the other hand.
• Once per turn, you can Shove a creature with your shield as a free action.

Mastery

Cost: 10 Character Points
Prerequisite: Shield Fighting Style

You’ve mastered using a shield to defend yourself. While you are wielding a shield with which you are proficient, you gain the following benefits:

• If you aren’t incapacitated, you can add shield bonus to your Dexterity defence vs indirect spells or other harmful effects.
• Each round, the first time that a creature that you can see damages you, the weapon dice deal minimum damage.
• Each round, the first time that you are missed by an effect that targets your Dexterity defence and deals half damage on a miss, you instead take no damage.