Feats/Guardian Style

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Guardians specialize in protecting their allies and drawing the ire of their enemies.

Guardian Style Feats

Feat Name	Categories	Prerequisites	Benefit
Challenge	Combat • Guardian	Guardian	Gain the ability to challenge enemies.
Guardian	Combat • Guardian • Style	—	Gain a delayed damage pool, and either the challenge or patrol ability.
Patrol	Combat • Guardian	Guardian	Gain the ability to extend your threatened area.

Challenge

(Combat, Guardian)

Prerequisites: Guardian

Benefit: You gain the following ability:

Challenge

As a move action, you may issue a challenge to a creature you can see. You may expend martial focus to reduce this to a swift action.

A creature must be able to perceive your challenge to be affected by it. The creature takes a -2 penalty on attack rolls that do not include you as a target and a +2 bonus on attack rolls targeting only you. This penalty (but not bonus) increases by 1 for every 4 points of base attack bonus you possess.

The challenge lasts for a number of rounds equal to 3 + 1/2 your base attack bonus. Creatures receiving this effect are aware of it, though do not gain insight to its duration.

When you issue a new challenge, any previous challenge you have active ends. Multiple challenges do not stack; if a creature is affected by challenges from more than one creature, they suffer no penalty against the source of any challenge against them and likewise gain the bonus against the sources of all of the challenges.

Creatures with no Intelligence score (Intelligence score of (-)) cannot be targeted by your challenge.

Guardian

(Combat, Guardian, Style)

Prerequisites: —

Benefit: You gain the ability to gain and expend martial focus, and you gain a delayed damage pool.

Delayed Damage Pool

Your delayed damage pool is equal to your 3 x your base attack bonus.

When you receive damage, as part of taking the damage you may redirect all or part of it to your delayed damage pool. Apply damage reduction and resistance before redirecting the damage. You may not redirect damage that would exceed the maximum capacity of the damage pool.

Your delayed damage pool empties at the end of your turn each round, inflicting any damage stored in the pool on you, bypassing any damage reduction or resistance you possess and resetting to 0. Any additional effects of the attack, such as poison, are still incurred immediately even if the entire damage of the attack is redirected to the delayed damage pool.

Any healing you receive in excess of your maximum hp automatically reduces the amount of damage in your delayed damage pool.

Should you lose access to the Guardian sphere, any damage (or other effects if you possess certain feats) is incurred at the end of your turn.

In addition, you gain one of the following feats as a bonus feat: Challenge or Patrol

Patrol

(Combat, Guardian)

Prerequisites: Guardian

Benefit: You gain the following ability:

Challenge

As long as you have martial focus, as a full-round action you may increase your threatened area by 5 ft. (or 10 ft. if your BAB is 4+) until the beginning of your next turn. This increased threatened area is applied after the effects of the reach weapon special feature.

To perform a reaction that is triggered in this enlarged threatened area, you must move to bring the creature that triggered the reaction within your reach. Any movement you make provokes reactions as normal. Your total movement before your next turn may not exceed your base speed.