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Barbarian Rage
You gain resistance to all damage equal to half your Constitution modifier. while raging. This increases to your full Constitution modifier at level 12. This reduction triggers before and in addition to any other damage reduction you have.
Thoughts?
Lean into that blow!
Fighter Barbarian
Requirements You are wielding a two handed melee weapon.
You throw your whole body into a swing. Make a melee strike. If the attack hits, roll damage as normal, but for each die of weapon damage add your strength modifier again to damage thus a greatsword would add your strength twice not four times. Runes like striking add additional multiples of your strength modifier. You add any precision damage only once. This counts as two attacks when calculating your multiple attack penalty.
How about you move with the punch?
When you take the hit, you move with the blow.
Prerequisites: Dex 11, Acrobatics 5 ranks.
Benefit: When an enemy hits you with a melee attack, you can immediately move 5 feet to any adjacent square that is not difficult terrain. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
Thoughts? Too powerful?
This one goes out to my brother the cleric who just never has enough actions to get that shield up in time!
Trigger An enemy hits you with a melee Strike.
Requirements You are wielding a shield.
You have this shield. You don’t use it much, but every once and a while you flail with it in the right direction! You immediately use the Raise a Shield action and gain your shield’s bonus to AC. The circumstance bonus from the shield applies to your AC when you’re determining the outcome of the triggering attack. You can not use this feat again for an hour.
Thoughts?
Let’s help those slower characters!
Sometimes the little guys need a helpful shove.
Benefit: When moving throw an ally who is a smaller or equal size’s space, you can choose to treat that space and any additional spaces as difficult terrain and move the ally with you.
Normal: You can move through ally’s spaces with no penalty, but you can not move them with you.
Thoughts?
Save yourself at the last second
Archetype
Archetype Great Sword
Prerequisites Great Sword Dedication
When the block brakes, you’ve learned to turn it just enough to save yourself some pain. If you use your sword to do a shield block, you reduce the damage you take by your strength modifier. The sword still takes damage as normal.
Thoughts?
I want to block stuff with my sword!
You swing hard enough, and you can block even the best attacks.
Prerequisites: Proficiency with shields.
Benefit: You’ve trained how to use a sword to block. If you are wielding a melee weapon, you gain a +1 shield bonus to KAC and EAC against melee attacks.
Thoughts?
Let keep building!
Archetype
Archetype Great Sword
Prerequisite Great Sword Dedication
You know how to turn a blade to get the most out of it. Any two handed sword you are wielding has its hardness increased by 1/2, rounded down, its normal amount.
Thoughts?
Let’s hit back HARD!
Archetype
Archetype Great Sword
Prerequisites Great Sword Dedication
Swing with the strike and swing back harder! If you use your sword to do a shield block against and strike that enemy on your next turn with a melee attack, gain a bonus to damage equal to 1/2 your level to that first damage roll that turn.
Thoughts?
I want to punch people back!
If they hit you, you hit them back!.
Prerequisites: Bodyguard, In Harm’s Way.
Benefit: After you are damaged by In Harm’s Way, you make a free attack against the enemy that hit you.
Thoughts?
Throat Punch Games 