Shield Magus

[Stack]

Obviously the class has more important issues to be sorted out, but it occurred to me that a shield based path would be nice. You can fake it now (shields with a boss or spikes are 1-handed weapons, archetyping into everstand stance would make a shield 2-handed), but a path to work raising shield into your action economy and allowing you to deliver a spell when you shield block would be cool.

[Oakblade]

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[TheGentlemanDM]

Maybe something as simple as "After you use Striking Spell and start Casting a Spell that takes 1 action or more to cast, you can Raise a Shield or cast the shield cantrip as part of that Cast a Spell activity."

Your mobility isn't great (you're very much a stand and deliver sort of character), but it solves the economy problem.

[Callin13]

I like that!

[CrypticSplicer]

I'd love a feat or synthesis that let you upgrade the shield spell to provide a +2 to AC instead of +1. It would be particularly interesting for a two handed tanking build, though they seem to have gone a temp hit point path instead.

[graystone]

Stack wrote:

a path to work raising shield into your action economy

Reactive Shield feat works well for that. So you can manage it for 2 feats now but it'd be cool to bake it into a path.

Stack wrote:

allowing you to deliver a spell when you shield block would be cool.

Hmmm... Not sure how this would work. First you'd need to get shield Block. Then you'd have to replace normal Striking Spell with a Blocking Spell. After that you have to hope the creature attacks you...

Maybe a version of STRIKER’S SCROLL that instead works on shields and activates on a block instead?