OGC:Defensive Stance (3.5e Feat)

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Defensive Stance [Fighter Bonus, Defensive, Class, Stance]

3e Summary::You can divert your strength and dexterity from your attacks to focus on your defense.

Prerequisite: Strength 13, Dexterity 13, Combat Expertise, Fighter level 1st

Benefit: In melee combat, you may adopt a special defensive stance allowing you to add half your Strength or Dexterity bonus, round down, to your AC (minimum of 1). Your Strength and Dexterity modifier for your own melee attacks, however, is then reduced by half (and by one quarter for your off-hand weapon).

Special: You may only use defensive stance while fighting defensively. In addition to the normal feat slot, a fighter must spend 250 XP and 2 weeks in training in order to learn this feat. A fighter who spends 500 XP and 4 weeks in training, does not suffer the Strength and Dexterity penalty to melee attacks

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Secrets (AEG)
Races	Suffering Orcs (3.5e Race)
Classes	Barbarian of the North (3.5e Class)
Feats	Arcane Ley Lines (3.5e Feat) • Arch Nemesis (3.5e Feat) • Avatar (3.5e Feat) • Barbaric Past (3.5e Feat) • Bardic Lore (3.5e Feat) • Beast Line (3.5e Feat) • Boundaries of the Past (3.5e Feat) • Brew Epic Potion (3.5e Feat) • Brew Greater Potion (3.5e Feat) • Brew Unstable Potion (3.5e Feat) • Co Dependence (3.5e Feat) • Damage Reduction (3.5e Feat) • Defensive Stance (3.5e Feat) • Delusions of Grandeur (3.5e Feat) • Destiny Denied (3.5e Feat) • Distracting Stance (3.5e Feat) • Divine Champion (3.5e Feat) • Divine Ley Lines (3.5e Feat) • Dwarf Line (3.5e Feat) • Elf Line (3.5e Feat) • Forgotten Lore (3.5e Feat) • Great Destiny (3.5e Feat) • Greater Damage Reduction (3.5e Feat) • Greater Maiming Strike (3.5e Feat) • Greater Stunning Strike (3.5e Feat) • Improved Damage Reduction (3.5e Feat) • Improved Defensive Stance (3.5e Feat) • Improved Maiming Strike (3.5e Feat) • Improved Stunning Strike (3.5e Feat) • Inspired Past (3.5e Feat) • Maiming Strike (3.5e Feat) • Monastic Past (3.5e Feat) • Multiple Stunning Strike (3.5e Feat) • Noble Past (3.5e Feat) • Paragon of Beasts (3.5e Feat) • Past Life (3.5e Feat) • Perfect Body (3.5e Feat) • Perfect Flesh (3.5e Feat) • Perfect Mind (3.5e Feat) • Perfect Self (3.5e Feat) • Perfect Soul (3.5e Feat) • Sorcerous Past (3.5e Feat) • Stunning Strike (3.5e Feat) • Superior Damage Reduction (3.5e Feat) • Superior Maiming Strike (3.5e Feat) • Virtuous Past (3.5e Feat)
Divinity	Foresight (3.5e Cleric Domain)