[Adonthell-general] Fighting Feats

[Andrew Michael Phillips]

I'd like to propose a fighting feat and also ask some questions about its 
implementation.

I am thinking about a Shield Bash feat or skill (whichever you want to 
call it.) The feat itself seems easy enough:
if (character has bash feat) && (shield can do bash damage) { 
        calculate shield bash as melee damage
} 

However, I run into problems when writing requirements for shields. Most 
large or metallic shields could be used to inflict bash damage, but to 
require a Bash feat from anyone using a shield seems unreasonable. So, 
I've tried to choose a middle path. The shields I'm designing now have a 
shield bash value listed, but its bash value is conditional on having the 
bash feat. I think the bash feat should require a rank in melee and a rank 
in shield. How does that sound?

My next question is :
Should it be possible to put more than one rank in such a feat? How 
should the effectiveness of the feat be determined?

For example:

1 rank in Shield and 1 rank in Melee opens up the Shield Bash feat 
(obviously)

After the character chooses the bash feat, should additional ranks in 
the feat increase (or multiply) the damage done by a shield bash? If 
so, it might have the be limited in some way. It would seem rather odd for 
someone to do be able to 9 or 10 pts of damage by bashing with a wooden 
buckler. 

-- 
Andrew Phillips
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