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Feats

Feat Name	Categories	Prerequisites	Benefit
Deflecting Shield	Combat	—	Your shield bonus to AC applies against touch attacks.
Dodge	Combat	Dex 13	+1 dodge bonus to AC.
Flexible Cover	Combat	—	Your shield bonus to AC applies against touch attacks.
Hardened Shield	Combat	—	Your shield gains a hardness bonus equal to your BAB.
Improved Shield Bash	Combat	—	You do not lose your shield bonus when shield bashing.
Reactive Defense	Combat	—	While your doing total defense, you may make attacks of opportunity against creatures that miss you.

Guardian Style Feats

Feat Name	Categories	Prerequisites	Benefit
Challenge	Combat • Guardian	Guardian	Gain the ability to challenge enemies.
Guardian	Combat • Guardian • Style	—	Gain a delayed damage pool, and either the challenge or patrol ability.
Patrol	Combat • Guardian	Guardian	Gain the ability to extend your threatened area.

Shield Style Feats

Feat Name	Categories	Prerequisites	Benefit
Battering Defense	Combat	Shield Fighter	Dealing damage batters an opponent that missed an attack.
Blockade	Combat	Shield Fighter	Expend your martial focus to gain Evasion.
Catch Blade	Combat • Deflect	Shield Fighter	Trap an attacker's weapon with your shield.
Cover Ally	Combat	Shield Fighter	Use active defense to protect allies.
Extensive Defense	Combat	Shield Fighter	Expend martial focus to gain active defense against all valid attacks until start of next turn.
Forced Rebound	Combat • Deflect	Shield Fighter	When an enemy misses, make a bull rush.
Greater Deflect	Combat	Shield Fighter	Expend martial focus to apply two deflect feats to active defense instead of one.
Interposing Shield	Combat	Shield Fighter	Creatures protected by your active defense gain damage reduction.
Jarring Block	Combat • Deflect	Shield Fighter	When an enemy misses, make a disarm attempt.
Punch Block	Combat	Shield Fighter	Replace your AC score with the result of an attack roll.
Redirecting Shield	Combat • Deflect	Shield Fighter	When an enemy misses redirect the attack to another creature.
Sacrificial Shield	Combat • Deflect	Shield Fighter	Make an attack hit your shield instead of you.
Shield Fighter	Combat	—	Actively increase your shield bonus against attacks.
Shield Skate	Combat	Shield Fighter	Use shield to gain a 10 ft. speed bonus, and make Overrun attempts against creatures in your path.
Shielded Focus	Combat	Shield Fighter	Regain martial focus when an attack misses an active defense recipient, or when you fight defensively.
Smashing Counter	Combat • Deflect	Shield Fighter	When an enemy misses, make a shield bash.

Advanced Shield Style Feats

Feat Name	Categories	Prerequisites	Benefit
Life's Shield	Combat • Deflect	BAB +7, Sacrificial Shield, Shield Fighter	When an attack would reduce you to 0 hp use Sacrificial Shield as a free action.
Perfect Redirect	Combat • Deflect	BAB +7, Deflecting Shield, Redirecting Shield, Shield Fighter	Redirect missed magical attacks to another creature.
Soul's Shield	Combat	BAB +5, Shield Fighter	Gain bonus to all saving throws equal to your shield’s enhancement bonus to AC.