Shield Parry (General, fighter)

You actively interpose your shield in the way of an attack.

The Quintessential Paladin
Author Alejandro Melchor
Series Quintessential Series
Publisher Mongoose Publishing
Publish date 2002

• Prerequisite: Combat Reflexes, Shield Proficiency.
• Benefit: As a move-equivalent action, you can react to a melee attack you are aware of and intercept it with your shield. You make a normal attack roll, adding the shield’s armour bonus; if the result exceeds the attacker’s roll, the attack is successfully parried. If the parry fails, the attacker must still beat your Armour Class, but without the shield’s bonus. If you already used a full-round action or two partial actions as normal for your turn, you cannot attempt to parry. Likewise, if you parried before your turn, you only have one standard action left.
• Normal: Characters can only trust in their Armour Class to block attacks and cannot parry pre-emptively.
• Special: Spells and abilities that grant an extra action give the character either a chance for a second parry or the chance to use a full-round action in addition to the parry attempt.