Editing Ogre:CharacterCodex:Skills:Protection (section)

==Shield==
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!Ability
|Constitution
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!Action
|Not an action
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!Armor Penalty
|None
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!Untrained
|Yes
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!Concentration
|No
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'''Proficiency:''' Light, Medium, Heavy

'''Description:''' This skill represents your ability to efficiently use a shield without being encumbered. Each rank in shield reduces the combat penalty of a shield by one. Maneuver penalty is reduced by one every 3 rank and precise maneuver penalty is never reduced with this skill.

===Feats===

====Buckler Defense====
: When you attack with your offhand weapon, you may still apply the cover bonus from your buckler.

====Increased Protection====
: The character knows how to use a shield more effectively adding a +1 dodge bonus to Defense when using that type of shield.
: '''Specialist:''' Add +2 dodge bonus Defense.
: '''Expert:''' Add +4 dodge bonus Defense.
: '''Master:''' Add +8 dodge bonus Defense.

====Phalanx Fighting====
: If you have an ally on your side that also have the Phalanx Fighting Feat, you can increase by one the cover provide by your shield. If you have two allies with the Phalanx fighting feat, one on each side, increased the cover bonus by two categories.
: '''Specialist:''' You gain the cover bonus even if your ally does not have the Phalanx Fighting Feat.

====Shield Bash====
: When you perform a shield bash, you may still apply the shield's cover to your Defense.
: '''Specialist:''' Any shield bash you make with a small or large shield also affects your opponent as if you had performed a bull rush. You don't actually move into your opponent's square or incur attacks of opportunity for the bash. You also can't move your opponent back more than 5 feet, nor can you move along with the defender. You can't use this feat with a buckler.
: '''Expert:''' You can now move with your opponent that you bull rush.

====Shield Charge====
: When you attack with your shield as part of a charge action, you inflict x2 normal damage.
: '''Specialist:''' You inflict x3 normal damage.
: '''Expert:''' You inflict x4 normal damage.
: '''Master:''' You inflict x5 normal damage.

====Weight Tolerance====
: The character know how to wear a shield so it's weight is less encumbering. For encumbrance purpose, count the shield as only 90% of its weight.
: '''Specialist:''' Count the shield as only 80% of its weight.
: '''Expert:''' Count the shield as only 70% of its weight.
: '''Master:''' Count the shield as only 60% of its weight.