You have come to realize that carrying a shield offers far more than simply protection. The shield is a powerful tool which you happen to be presenting front and foremost, thus you should take advantage of every advantage it entails.
- Increase your Strength or Constitution rating by 1 (up to a maximum of 20).
- You have proficiency when using a shield as an improvised weapon. Additionally, shield attacks deal bonus damage equal to the shield's AC.
- When you damage a creature with a shield attack, you may use a bonus action to impose a DC 10+STR Constitution check. On a failure, the target is incapacitated until the start of your next turn.
- Whenever you successfully Shove a creature, you may additionally deal your shield's AC as bludgeoning damage to the target.
- You may use an arm actively holding a shield to perform a grapple. You lose your shield's associated bonuses while the grapple persists, however you can still perform shield attacks against creatures you are actively grappling.
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