Your practice with a shield has given you more options in combat. You now gain the following:

- Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution score by 1.

- While you are wielding a shield you can "brace yourself" as a bonus action, gaining the effects of the Dodge action.

- Your shield has become an extension of your body. You consider shields to be light weapons which deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage.