Feats/Shield Fighter

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Practitioners of the Shield style master shields, bucklers, and tower shields, leveraging more power and utility out of such equipment than most warriors ever dream of.

Benefit: You gain the ability to gain and expend martial focus, and you gain the following ability.

Active Defense

If you are using a shield and you are attacked by a creature you are aware of while not flat-footed, you may spend an attack of opportunity to increase your shield bonus to AC against that attack by +2 (increasing to +3 at +4 base attack bonus). This decision must be made before the roll is made.

You may expend your martial focus in place of spending an attack of opportunity.

Deflect feats grant extra effects to Active Defense. Each use of active defense may only benefit from one deflect feat.

Prerequisite for:

Battering Defense, Blockade, Catch Blade, Cover Ally, Extensive Defense, Forced Rebound, Greater Deflect, Interposing Shield, Jarring Block, Life's Shield, Perfect Redirect, Punch Block, Redirecting Shield, Sacrificial Shield, Shield Skate, Shielded Focus, Smashing Counter, Soul's Shield

Deflect Feats

Name	Categories	Prerequisites	Benefit
Catch Blade	Combat, Deflect	Shield Fighter	Trap an attacker's weapon with your shield.
Forced Rebound	Combat, Deflect	Shield Fighter	When an enemy misses, make a bull rush.
Jarring Block	Combat, Deflect	Shield Fighter	When an enemy misses, make a disarm attempt.
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.
Smashing Counter	Combat, Deflect	Shield Fighter	When an enemy misses, make a shield bash.

Advanced Deflect Feats

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.

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