Patience: While wielding a shield and one-handed weapon, you can hold one or more attacks as part of your attack action. You can do this any number of times. When you have an attack held, until the beginning of your next turn, you can use your reaction to do one of the following:
- Parry a number of attacks equal to the number of attacks you stored. The attacks being parried can be ranged, spell or melee, but must all be from the same attacking creature, regardless of how many of your attacks you held. If you parry an attack, roll a melee attack. Your armor class is increased by half your attack roll, and if the unmodified number on your attack roll is greater than the modified attack roll of the attacker, you may make a melee attack against your attacker as a free action if the target is within reach of your weapon. You must elect to parry an attack before you know the value of the attacker's roll.
- Reposte a melee attack with your shield. If you do this, your armor class against the incoming attack cannot benefit from your shield's bonus. After the incoming attack is resolved, you may make a Shove attack against the attacker with your shield. If it succeeds, the attacker cannot make any further melee attacks that round.
- If you also have the Shield Master feat, you can use your reaction to hide behind your shield against an effect that triggers a dexterity saving throw (as per the description on that feat), but you also add the number of attacks held to the result of your saving throw.
...and Decisiveness: When you make the attack action, you can also elect to expend all your attacks into a single strike. You must elect to do this before you make the attack roll. If it hits, roll damage for all attacks you could make that turn, and the attack is a guarenteed critical strike. When you do this, you must take a short rest before you can use this feature again.
This feat cannot be obtained until you are Fighter, Paladin or Barbarian level 8, and you must have a Dexterity score of 13. Obtaining this feat requires specialised training from someone who already possesses it.
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