Martial characters don’t get a ton of love, how about we give them some
Improved Parry
You know how to move a blade out of the way and how to strike lightning fast after the dodge
Benefits: Gain the following
- You gain a +1 to dexterity or strength to a maximum of 20.
- When you perform a parry on a melee attack, the disadvantage dice both receive a -1 to their rolls.
- If your parry results in the attack missing, you may make a basic melee attack as a free action.
Thoughts?
Throat Punch Games 
Maybe limit it to finesse weapons?
I’m of two minds for this. One is dex based parry seems like a great idea and it opens up the idea for a STR based parry. The other is that I could keep this open for both str and dex based weapons to keep this feat more general. What would you want? Specific or general?