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Protection

Rank 1

  • Blessing of Protection: At-will, swift, 24 hours; subject gains a ward lasting all day, or until used. On use, as an immediate action, it grants a bonus of 1d4 + your level to one defense roll or saving throw.
  • Power Word: Shield: At-will, swift, ranged; subject gains Absorb 100% (all), limit medium damage.
  • Resistance: At-will, swift, ranged, sustained; subject gains Resist 50% to one common form of energy damage: fire, frost, or lightning. Subject sustains the effect with its own concentration.
  • Sanctuary: At-will, immediate, ranged; subject is invulnerable, but unable to take hostile actions, until your next turn. If target is hostile, Cha negates. Subject cannot receive this benefit more than once per encounter.

Feats

  • Retributive Shield: whenever your Power Word: Shield blocks damage, it inflicts the same amount of holy damage on the attacker.

Rank 2

  • PW:S blocks heavy damage.
  • Power Word: Freedom: At-will, swift, ranged; subject is immediately freed of one effect that controls its actions, limits its movement, forces it to move, etc. Alternatively, all such effects can be dispelled; roll Cha against each to dispel it.
  • Greater Resistance: Subject can resist less common types such as arcane, necrotic, psychic, poison, disease, or shadow; or they can resist common physical damage types such as slashing, piercing, bludgeoning, explosive, thermal, electromagnetic.
  • Sacrificial Lamb: Reaction to an ally suffering harm, ranged; you negate damage or debilitation to an ally, instead suffering it yourself. Does not function if you are currently invulnerable.

Rank 3

  • PW:S regenerates half its limit each round
  • Death Ward (block negative levels, ability damage, and death effects)
  • Power Word: Barrier: At-will, swift, ranged, circle 3; all subjects inside gain Absorb 100% (all), limit 200% heavy damage, while inside area. Damage limit is per casting, not per target.
  • Salvation: At-will, immediate, ranged; subject may choose one ongoing effect with which they are allowed to save to end, and they immediately succeed on the save as if they rolled a natural 20. Subject cannot receive this benefit more than once per day.

Rank 4

  • Power Word: Reflect (peripety)

Rank 5

  • Power Word: Invulnerable