You use shields not just for protection but also for offense. You gain the following benefits while you are wielding a shield:
- If you take the Attack action on your turn to deal damage (unarmed attack or with a one handed weapon without using the benefits of the dueling fighting style) or to shove, you can use a bonus action to try to hit a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield.
- You are proficient in using your shield as a improvised melee weapon. On a hit, the target suffers 1d4 damage (bludgeoning).
- You can don or doff your shield as bonus action.
- Using a magical shield doesn't improve your attack, nor the damage you deal.
- You are allowed to add your STR ability modifier to the damage, only when you have the two weapon fighting stlye.
- The feat does not allow you to use the bonus action to shove a creature.
- Your shield is never a weapon. Only in the moment of the hit, your shield becomes a improvised weapon.
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