Shielded Staff Style
System: Pathfinder | SRD
Types: Combat, Style
You can attack and defend effectively with a shield attached to your staff or spear.
When you enter this style, you attach your buckler or light shield to your quarterstaff, polearm, or spear, combining them into a weapon known as a shielded staff. While in this style, you can wield the shielded staff normally, but attacks you make with it take a –1 penalty. As long as you wield the shielded staff with two hands, you gain a +2 shield bonus to your AC (regardless of the shield or buckler’s enhancement bonus). You can’t make shield bash attacks with the attached buckler or shield, and detaching the buckler or shield from the weapon is a move action that provokes attacks of opportunity.
Prerequisites
Dex 15Two-Weapon FightingWeapon Focus (quarterstaffany weapon from the polearms fighter weapon groupor any weapon from the spears fighter weapon group)proficiency with bucklers and light shields
Benefit
When you enter this style, you attach your buckler or light shield to your quarterstaff, polearm, or spear, combining them into a weapon known as a shielded staff. While in this style, you can wield the shielded staff normally, but attacks you make with it take a –1 penalty. As long as you wield the shielded staff with two hands, you gain a +2 shield bonus to your AC (regardless of the shield or buckler’s enhancement bonus). You can’t make shield bash attacks with the attached buckler or shield, and detaching the buckler or shield from the weapon is a move action that provokes attacks of opportunity.
Source: Martial Arts Handbook pg. 15
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