You have learned the way to combine your shield to any offensive capabilities in combat. All the time spend in training and in combat finally pay off. The weapon you wield in one hand will strike harder and harsher than ever before. You gain the following benefits:
- When an attack misses you by 5 or more, you can use your reaction to make an attack of opportunity to the attacking creature. Provided that you are wielding a shield in one hand.
- Before you make a melee attack with a one-handed martial weapon you are proficient with, and wield a shield in the other hand, you can take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add +10 to the attack's damage.
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I really like this feat! It's well balanced and makes sense. However, I would reword the first benefit to match feats with similar abilities: "When an attack misses you by 5 or more and you are wielding a shield, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against the attacking creature."
If a Paladin has Tunnel Fighter as Fighting Style, can he use the OA without reaction?
In this case he can use this feat for an unlimited number of times in a round. Right?
You do raise a good point. From how I read it, the OA from the Tunnel Fighter and the OA of Adept Dueler have different triggers. One being when one leaves your space, the other being when they miss, but in RAW you are definitely right, they are still OA.
The RAI was that this reaction would apply any additional effects triggering on an OA, like the Sentinel feat. I'd say take a minute to balance it out with either your players or DM on how you want to use and apply this.
I would suggest this be renamed to Adept Duelist.
I played with this one, and I feel this is too strong. The character using this one became the star of the show.
I would balance this feat by adding that "it only works on humanoids"
After all, you cannot "duel" a spider, or a rat, or a wolf. You duel other people.
One player has a Noble character, and I modified this feat to only apply when actually "dueling". He is very confident in his dueling ability because of this feat.
Version of this that works only during actual duels (with humanoids)
https://www.dndbeyond.com/feats/558357-adept-duelist
Also gives hit bonus for one-on-one duels
Also renames it to "Adept Duelist" which sounds nicer
Powerful.