[MA] Shield Techniques

[the_matrix_walker]

Originally Posted by Peter V. Dell'Orto

Techniques to do what, though? You bash with a shield at full skull, and rush with a shield at full skull. So there is no penalty to buy them off.

However, you could make a more effective shield bash as a penalized technique, much as Exotic Hand Strike and Hammer Fist do to punches. I'd just be sure to include some downside to it so that striking with the shield in a straight-up doesn't become a useless move. Make a "shield edge strike" that does extra damage but reduces your DB by one in exchange for the extra damage, or which can be clumsy and make the shield unready.

I was just talking about the standard bash and rush, as those could be considered secondary to blocking. there are a number of techniques that default to full skill... so I just thought I'd throw it out there.