Shield Wall

[Laurk]

Its not source, but it would be awesome and give a realistic feel to combat I think if we added a feat called "Shield Wall" for fighters.

Shield Wall: You are trained in defensive formations, and are adept at linking shields with your fellow warriors to form a shieldwall.

When fighting defensivly, you gain a +2 AC (shield)bonus and vs knockdown for each person within 5' of you who also has this feat and is fighting defensivly (up to +4). However your movment speed is cut in half.

[thaelis]

That would be cool, but hard to implement perhaps? Also don't Stalwart Defenders already get a power like this...

[OnyxTigress]

Also don't Stalwart Defenders already get a power like this...

No, their ability is different.

Defensive Stance: The stalwart defender can become a bastion of defense. They cannot move from the spot they're defending, but they gain +2 enhancement bonus to Strength and +4 to Constitution, a +4 Dodge bonus to AC, and a +2 bonus to all saves. A 1st-level stalwart defender can use this ability once per day. They gain an additional use every two levels beyond 1st.

[Clangeddin]

Not to mention that defensive stance is not implemented like in PnP and it's so easily exploitable by your opponent in pvp (but even in pve it meets similar inconveniences), all they have to do is move to cancel it and waste one of your uses. So you pretty much can't use it as they can make you waste it 5 times in no time.

[Elusa]

Could make it a feat, act as a very short range aura when activated. But I don't think very many people would make use of it.

[thaelis]

Not to mention that defensive stance is not implemented like in PnP and it's so easily exploitable by your opponent in pvp (but even in pve it meets similar inconveniences), all they have to do is move to cancel it and waste one of your uses. So you pretty much can't use it as they can make you waste it 5 times in no time.

Can't you throw/shoot missile weapons in defensive stance? Even then they can still hit and run on you I suppose, and 5 uses is not a lot. I think with combat abilities like that a 1 or 2 minute cooldown timer would be sufficient instead of uses/day. It's pretty hard to abuse it since you can't move.

[Clangeddin]

Can't you throw/shoot missile weapons in defensive stance? Even then they can still hit and run on you I suppose, and 5 uses is not a lot. I think with combat abilities like that a 1 or 2 minute cooldown timer would be sufficient instead of uses/day. It's pretty hard to abuse it since you can't move.

No, you need a melee weapon to activate defensive stance.
And I also forgot to mention that it's removed whenever you use a potion (and by PnP rules, it's not supposed to happen).
The problems with defensive stance is that it's a hardcoded mess where both Bioware (NwN1) and Obsidian (NwN2) messed up big time and I'm not sure if the devs here (or any other PW server for that matter) can really do anything about it, unless they completely rework it into into a spell-like ability or something like that.

[Doubtful]

Seems a bit silly that you can only stand still x times a day. I assume ADHD is another class feature?

[Clangeddin]

seems a bit silly that you can only stand still x times a day. I assume adhd is another class feature?

adhd?

Edit: Why does it become lower cap-sized in my post? >.>

[Doubtful]

ADHD

Also common in gnomes.

[Clangeddin]

ADHD

Also common in gnomes.

Oh, that. Well I was about to go on an off-topic tirade but I guess this is not the place for that. :P
But yeah, I suppose that's another hidden feature of the class :P

[Lotus]

It's a cool idea ... that has been done elsewhere, and we're not doing it, as it would require a significant rebalancing of content. Might look at increasing Stalwart Defender uses of their stance/day. They came out a little short when fighters were improved.

[sonuvalich]

I see what you did there.

[Jhickey]

It's a cool idea ... that has been done elsewhere, and we're not doing it, as it would require a significant rebalancing of content. Might look at increasing Stalwart Defender uses of their stance/day. They came out a little short when fighters were improved.

Yes SD was greatly reduced by the implementation of the fighter changes. I do however like the idea.

[OnyxTigress]

It's a cool idea ... that has been done elsewhere, and we're not doing it, as it would require a significant rebalancing of content. Might look at increasing Stalwart Defender uses of their stance/day. They came out a little short when fighters were improved.

I approve greatly of this, as there really is no reason to not just go straight fighter.