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| Flavor=You are trained in how to properly use a Tower Shield.
| Flavor=You are trained in how to properly use a Tower Shield.


| Prerequisites=<onlyinclude>{{#ifeq:{{{transcludesection|Prerequisites}}}
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| Prerequisites|Proficient with light or heavy shields
| Prerequisites|Level 1, <[[Shield Proficiency (Feat)]], -OR- a character class that begins play proficient with a buckler or any shield>
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| Benefit=When you use a Tower Shield, the shield's armor check penalty only applies to Strength- and Dexterity-based skills.  With this feat, a Tower Shield is considered to be a heavy shield for all other feats, effects, and abilities which require a heavy shield.
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| Benefit=When you use a Tower Shield, the shield's armor check penalty only applies to Strength- and Dexterity-based skills.  With this feat, a Tower Shield is considered to fulfill the requirement for a heavy shield for all other feats, effects, and abilities which require a heavy shield. However, Tower Shields may never be used to perform a [[shield bash]].


'''Normal''': When you are using a shield with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 non-proficiency penalty to skill checks and to-hit rolls, or the shield's armor check penalty on attack rolls and on all skill checks that involve moving, whichever is larger.
'''Normal''': When you are using a shield with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 non-proficiency penalty to skill checks and to-hit rolls, or the shield's armor check penalty on attack rolls and on all skill checks that involve moving, whichever is larger.


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| ShortDesc|You are able to use a Tower Shield proficiently
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Latest revision as of 00:51, 17 August 2021


You are trained in how to properly use a Tower Shield.

Prerequisites: Level 1, <Shield Proficiency (Feat), -OR- a character class that begins play proficient with a buckler or any shield>

Benefit: When you use a Tower Shield, the shield's armor check penalty only applies to Strength- and Dexterity-based skills. With this feat, a Tower Shield is considered to fulfill the requirement for a heavy shield for all other feats, effects, and abilities which require a heavy shield. However, Tower Shields may never be used to perform a shield bash.

Normal: When you are using a shield with which you are not proficient, you take a -4 non-proficiency penalty to skill checks and to-hit rolls, or the shield's armor check penalty on attack rolls and on all skill checks that involve moving, whichever is larger.