Shield Champion Flurry


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Hi Guys,
Lvl 7 Brawler Archetypes‎ Shield Champion: Can Shield Champion use Brawler's Flurry to throw shield and perform one or more combat maneuver? These attacks do damage or not?
Another question: 1 far enemy, I have 4 attacks. How many attacks can I do with my Throw Shield?


Combat maneuvers do not do damage.

This section pertains to how the shield functions with being able to make additional attacks:

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Returning Shield (Ex): At 5th level, a shield champion can throw a shield so it ricochets off her target (and possibly other solid objects) to return to her at the end of her turn. This ability functions whether or not the shield champion hits her opponent or moves on her turn. The shield deals no damage to targets it bounces off other than the original target of the shield champion's attack. Other circumstances can prevent the shield from returning to the shield champion, such as an opponent using a readied action to catch the shield, or the shield sticking to a mimic's adhesive. The shield champion can opt to not have a thrown shield return to her, in which case it falls to the ground as it normally would. If the shield has the returning weapon special ability, she can use either that or this ability.

If a shield champion has additional attacks from a high base attack bonus, these additional attacks can be ricochets off an earlier target. The distance to each additional target adds to the total range of the shield, and range penalties apply, but there are no additional penalties for attacking in this manner. Because ricocheting attacks are treated as separate attacks, effects and modifiers that only apply to one attack roll (such as true strike) only apply to the first attack and not to the others. A shield champion can throw a shield as part of a brawler's flurry.

At 9th level, a shield champion gains Greater Shield Focus as a bonus feat. She must meet all prerequisites before selecting that feat. At 12th level, a shield champion can use her unarmed strike damage when dealing damage with a shield (whether in melee or thrown) or the shield's damage, whichever is greater. At 17th level, by ricocheting her shield off a nearby surface before hitting your intended target, she can treat that surface as the origin square of the attack to determine whether the target is flanked and whether the target gains a cover bonus to its AC. She can use this ability to attack a creature with total concealment from her if she knows what square it occupies, but the attack still has a 50% miss chance. This ability replaces brawler's strike.

However, it is unclear to me if you can make more than 1 attack against the same target, or whether you can bounce of 1 target and hit other targets subsequently, or hit 1 target bounce from them, off an object, back to hitting them again.

It's very unclear how it works.

The normal solution is a blinkback belt for thrown weapons with the feat quickdraw. For this you'll also want to invest in a quickdraw shield.


Hi Again,
Can I strike same target multiple time? News?

Shadow Lodge

Ever seen a pinball game where the ball bounces repeatably between a pylon and the wall? Your target's the pylon.


Since it is completely open to interpretation, my crew has agree that you can hit the same target repeatedly. This is based off the premise of hitting the floor and the target multiple times.

I have no idea what the actual plan was though.

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