Courses / MA / Ultimate Defense
Ultimate Defense
Code:
MA 451
Prerequisites:
Level:
4
Study DC:
12
Ability
Time:
Trigger
Trigger:
When you would take damage
Target:
You
Limit:
Once per rest
Duration:
One hit or ability use (upgrades to until the end of your next turn)
The ultimate defensive technique lives up to its name, and protects its user from damage in a big way.
For the duration of Ultimate Defense, you take 100 less damage
(after applying resistance).
(This does not protect you from damage caused by spending or sacrificing your own HP.)
If Ultimate Defense reduces the damage of a hit to 0, that hit becomes a miss.
(You do not suffer any ongoing damage from that hit, or other on hit effects from it.)
(Reducing the damage from failing a save to 0 does not protect you from any other effects of failing that save.)
For the duration of Ultimate Defense, you take 100 less damage
(after applying resistance).
(This does not protect you from damage caused by spending or sacrificing your own HP.)
If Ultimate Defense reduces the damage of a hit to 0, that hit becomes a miss.
(You do not suffer any ongoing damage from that hit, or other on hit effects from it.)
(Reducing the damage from failing a save to 0 does not protect you from any other effects of failing that save.)
“If you’re trying to kill me, you’ll have to do much better than that.”
| Name | Effort | Requires | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parry | 15 | You take 100 less damage during Ultimate Defense. Ultimate Defense lasts for one instance of damage. |
|
| Unbreakable | 10 | Parry | Ultimate Defense now lasts until the end of the turn (turn, not round). |
| Unscathed | 10 | Unbreakable | Ultimate Defense now lasts until the start of your next turn. |
| Endure | 0 | Parry | The hit or ability you activate Ultimate Defense against cannot reduce you below 1 HP. |
Extra Credit
Undefeatable
Effort: 15
Requires: Mastery
You can now use Ultimate Defense as a reaction when you would be defeated.
Ultimate Defense now lasts until the end of your next turn.
During Ultimate Defense:
If you would die, your death is delayed until Ultimate Defense ends.
You are not defeated if you have 0 HP (or less).
(If you still have 0 HP when it ends, you are defeated then.)
(You still cannot be healed from 0 HP to above 0 HP by normal healing.)
Ultimate Defense now lasts until the end of your next turn.
During Ultimate Defense:
If you would die, your death is delayed until Ultimate Defense ends.
You are not defeated if you have 0 HP (or less).
(If you still have 0 HP when it ends, you are defeated then.)
(You still cannot be healed from 0 HP to above 0 HP by normal healing.)
Haughty
Effort: 8
Requires: Mastery
You have AC +1 until the first time you are damaged by an attack in each encounter.
While you are bloodied you lose this bonus.
While you are bloodied you lose this bonus.
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