Shield of Swings (Feat)

A series of carefully placed attacks serves to bolster your defenses.

Prerequisites: <Fighter 1 -OR- level 11>, Power Attack (Feat)

Benefit: While wielding a two-handed weapon, you can choose to take a -3 penalty on melee damage rolls to gain a +1 shield bonus to your Armor Class. When your base attack bonus reaches +4, and every +4 thereafter, the penalty increases by -3 and the shield bonus increases by +1. You can only choose to use this feat when you declare that you are making an attack or a full-attack action with a two-handed melee weapon. The effects of this feat last until your next turn.

Note that this feat may be used at the same time as Power Attack, effectively trading to-hit for armor class.