Grappled Shield

You’ve developed the skills to survive in close quarter, hand-to-hand, mass combat. You gain the following benefits:

• You can use a live, grappled enemy as a "meat shield". When you have an opponent grappled, your Armour Class immediately increases by 1, it also increases by 1 for every two enemies within 5 ft. of you (including the grappled enemy).
• If you succeed on a contested Strength (Athletics) check against an enemy by 5 or more, then the enemies next check to escape is at Disadvantage. If you succeed by 10 or more, then you can also take a free attack against them immediately.
• When you are prone, standing up uses only 5 feet of your movement.

Any attack against you while you are holding your "meat shield", that hits above your normal Armour Class but below the modified Armour Class, removes a "charge" from your meat shield. Your meat shield has 3 "charges" until they are hacked to death, and die (Player tracked). Once a meat shield dies, what remains of their body sags to the ground and cannot be used in this way again.