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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joker" data-source="post: 1986824" data-attributes="member: 826">I need to think of a better name but that's trivial.  Let's just say it's a working title <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.I have created a feat that allows a character ignore some of the encumbrance of a tower shield.Here goes:Tower Shield Expertise.This feat allows you to handle a tower shield with greater ease and flexibility.Prerequisites:  Strength 15, Shield Proficiency, Tower Shield Proficiency, Base Attack Bonus +3.Benefits:  You can ignore the penalties on attack when wielding a tower shield in combat.  Also, in your hands, the armor check penalty of a tower shield is halved.Normal:  Without this feat you take a -2 penalty on attack rolls when you employ a tower shield in combat.  And the armor check penalty is not decreased.Is it too powerful?  Too weak?  Need more prerequisites?  Do I need to take feat-naming classes?  Also, as it is now with the ACP reducing benefit should I half it before applying modifiers (i.e. mithril, masterwork) or after.  For example, if a character with this feat picks up a masterwork mithril tower shield, should the ACP become -1 or -3?  I'm inclined to think it should be -3 because the ACP of a masterwork mithril armor for any other character is standard -6.  Then it is halved because the character with this feat knows how to wield it with more expertise.  Hmm, I think I may have answered my own question on that one and I don't feel like pressing delete.  Oh well.So what do you guys think?</blockquote>

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