Block with your shield to reduce the damage you take.
(Apply this after resistance.)
The type of shield you are using determines how much damage is reduced.
Buckler: -1d6 damage
Shield: -2d6 damage
Pavise: -3d6 damage

Unblockable:
You cannot Block Arcane Darts,
persistent environmental hazards (fiery floors, clouds of acid, or Unsafe Spaces),
damage from ongoing damage (ex: bleeding, poison),
or psychic damage.

If you reduce the damage of a hit to 0 using this ability, the hit becomes a miss.
(You do not take any ongoing damage from that hit, or suffer other on hit effects from it.)
(Reducing the damage from failing a save to 0 using Block does not protect you from any other effects of failing that save.)

You cannot Block and Parry the same hit.

Exhaust:
Spend stamina and reduce your maximum stamina by the same amount until you rest.

Try to parry an attack with a wielded melee weapon to reduce the damage you take.

Roll to hit. If you roll higher than the attack’s roll to hit, reduce the damage it deals by your weapon’s damage die, or twice as much if you roll a natural 20.
While defending, you have advantage on this roll to hit.
(Apply this after resistance.)

If you reduce the damage of a hit to 0 using this ability, the hit becomes a miss.
(You do not take any ongoing damage from that hit, or suffer other on hit effects from it.)

You cannot Block and Parry the same hit.
You cannot Parry psychic damage.

Exhaust:
Spend stamina and reduce your maximum stamina by the same amount until you rest.