[ACG] Shield Champion Brawler archetype

[Matthew Duell]

First, I just want to say that the ACG is amazing. Fantastic work from the Paizo crew.

I just have a question concerning the Shield Champion archetype for Brawlers. One of the bonus feats granted by the archetype is Shield Master, and it says that you have to meet all the prerequisites for the feat. One of those prereqs is TWF, which Brawlers get the effects of anyway when they're doing Brawler's Flurry. However, Brawler's Flurry says nothing about counting as a prerequisite for feats that require TWF. Does that mean that in order to get Shield Master as a bonus feat, I would have to build my character up to a 15 Dex and take TWF as a feat (which will really only benefit me in the instance I take a single attack, since Brawler's Flurry covers full attacks) in order to get access to Shield Master as a bonus feat? If so, is that intentional?

[Brias Blackcloak]

I would say it was intended that you could take it using Brawler's Flurry

Quote:

Brawler’s Flurry (Ex): Starting at 2nd level, a brawler can

make a brawler’s f lurry as a full-attack action. When doing so,
a brawler has the Two-Weapon Fighting feat when attacking
with any combination of unarmed strikes, weapons from
the close f ighter weapon group, or weapons with the “monk”
special feature.

Otherwise, it's silly to require a feat you get as a class feature.