Shield Master Clarification

[Kevincondor]

Hello,we have a little discussion here about Shield Master feat.

Shield Master (Combat)
Your mastery of the shield allows you to fight with it without hindrance.

Prerequisites: Improved Shield Bash, Shield Proficiency, Shield Slam, Two-Weapon Fighting, base attack bonus +11.

Benefit: You do not suffer any penalties on attack rolls made with a shield while you are wielding another weapon. Add your shield’s enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls made with the shield as if it were a weapon enhancement bonus.

The discussion start from the Faq:

Q: Does Shield Mastery remove the penalties for all attacks if you are using a non-shield weapon and a shield and two-weapon fighting? Or does it only remove the penalties for the shield attack?

A: Shield Mastery only removes the penalty for Two Weapon Fighting on the Shield Bash itself, it does not remove it for a non-Shield weapon in your other hand.

So for the question (we are from italy,and maybe was just a mistraduction or something like this):

Does Shield Master remove ALL the penalietes from the SHIELD BASH attack (TWF,Power Attack,etc etc,and keep them for the non-bash attacks), or just the penalietes from TWF from the BASH?

[Azten]

Rules as(maybe most likely) Intended it should only remove Two-Weapon Fighting penalties. Rules as Written it removes any penalty you have to the attacks.

[N N 959]

Quote:

Benefit: You do not suffer any penalties on attack rolls made with a shield while you are wielding another weapon.

I think most people translate this as the penalties that you incur from TWF. In order to insist that its a elimination of all penalties, then it would be identical to saying this:

"When wielding another weapon, you do not suffer any penalties on attack rolls made with a shield."

Why would wielding, let's say a dart in one hand, remove your shield penalties? It wouldn't. Such an interpretation is illogical.

If the intent really was to remove ALL penalties, you wouldn't reference wielding another weapon.

Hypothetical text if intent is to remove ALL penalties wrote:

You do not suffer any penalties on attack rolls made with a shield.

That's all you would write if the intent were to remove all penalties irregardless of origin. RAW does not say it removes all penalties. Reading the rule out of context is the only way you get there.