You are adept at using the wieght of your shield to your advantage. You gain the following benefits while wielding a shield:
- Your shield can be used as an improvised weapon. When you hit with your shield, you gain a bonus to damage rolls that is equal to your shields AC.
- You have advantage on any Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check made with a shield.
- You can done or doff a shield as a bonus action.
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Posted Feb 23, 2020Does this mean you have to be using a shield at the time of the check?
or the shield must be a part of the Athletics or Acrobatics?
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Posted Jun 21, 2020The intent was any Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check made while using a shield as part of the check, an example is using a shield to pin an enemy or using a shield as part of an acrobatics maneuver. A clever wording of your actions could almost always incorporate your shield in this unique way. Though that was the intent of the wording in the feat , as always talk with your DM and see what their take on it would be.