Improved Shield Bash

Improved Shield Bash [General]

While wielding a shield, you can make one shield bash attack each round in addition to your normal weapon attacks.

Prerequisite: Shield Proficiency.

Benefit: You can make one shield bash attack per round in addition to your normal attacks. With a heavy shield, you receive a -4 penalty to all your attacks that round. This penalty is reduced to -2 with a buckler or light shield. You cannot make a shield bash attack with a tower shield.

When you perform a shield bash, you may still apply the shield’s shield bonus to your AC.

Normal: Without this feat, a character who performs a shield bash must do so in place of his normal attacks and loses the shield’s shield bonus to AC until his or her next turn.