Martial maneuver descriptions.

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GAUNTLET OF STEEL
Level: Def 6
Action: Reaction
Range: Reach
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Armor Token Cost: 6
You open a tiny gap in your defenses, lulling an opponent into a false sense of security, then snap shut the steel jaws of your armored trap.
You can use this maneuver in response to being attacked, after the attack has resolved.
Make an attack against the creature that attacked you. You gain a +4 circumstance bonus to this attack, and deal double damage if you successfully hit.

GLORIOUS SHELL SHOCK
Level: Def 8 [Shield, Strike]
Action: Standard
Range: Reach
Target: Up to three creatures, who must occupy contiguous squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex partial (see text)
Armor Token Cost: 8
With superhuman strength and ferocity, your swing your shield in a wide arc, slamming into creatures and sending them hurtling away from you.
Make a single shield bash attack against up to three foes, all of which must be adjacent to each other. Against each creature you hit, you deal your normal shield bash damage plus an additional +5d6 damage. In addition, any creature you hit must make a Reflex save or be flung 20 feet away in a direction of your choosing. Only creatures of up to one size category larger than the initiator may be flung with this maneuver.

GRAND AEGIS
Level: Def 8 [Shield]
Action: Reaction
Range: Reach
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Armor Token Cost: 8
You bring your shield sharply to bear against a foe's weapon, blocking it entirely and potentially shattering his weapon.
Make an active defense roll against an attack. If you succeed, you are not hit, and deal triple your shield bash damage to your attacker's weapon if within your reach.

HAMSTRING
Level: Def 5 [Strike]
Action: Standard
Range: Reach
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round
Armor Token Cost: 5
You strike at a creature, not for optimal harm, but to mangle its ability to move.
Make an attack against a creature. If you hit, you deal +3d6 damage, and the creature's movement speeds are halved for 1 round (round down to nearest 5 foot increment).

IMPERVIOUS
Level: Def 6
Action: Reaction
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: See text
Armor Token Cost: 6
When tactics, shields, and armor fails, your resolve to fight on is all that remains.
Use this maneuver in reaction to taking damage.
You gain 6 temporary hit points per initiator level. These temporary hit points last until the start of your next turn.

INDESTRUCTIBLE
Level: Def 8
Action: Reaction
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: See text
Armor Token Cost: 8
Weapons become broken. Shields become dented. Armors become sundered. You alone stand.
Use this maneuver in reaction to taking damage.
You gain 10 temporary hit points per initiator level. These temporary hit points last until the start of your next turn.

INTERPOSING SHIELD
Level: Def 2 [Shield]
Action: Reaction
Range: Reach
Target: One ally
Duration: Instantaneous
Armor Token Cost: 2
Seeing an ally in peril, you throw wide your shield arm, providing a metal aegis.
When an ally adjacent to you is attacked, you provide them a +4 shield bonus to their AC. If your shield has enhancement bonuses, they apply to this granted bonus as well (thus, if you have a shield +2, you grant a +6 shield bonus).

INVULNERABILITY
Level: Def 9 [Armor, Shield]
Action: Reaction
Range: Reach
Target: You and all allies within reach
Duration: Instantaneous
Armor Token Cost: 9
Where you stand, none shall know fear.
You can use this maneuver in reaction to any harmful effect, be it an attack, a Force effect, or other special ability.
The triggering effect has no effect on you or allies within your reach.
Special: This maneuver does not provide immunity. As such, using it against a continuous effect, such as a voidchild's entropic shard, has no effect.

IRON RIPOSTE
Level: Def 7 [Shield]
Action: Reaction
Range: Reach
Target: One creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Armor Token Cost: 7
You actively defend yourself against an attack, creating an opening for a vicious counter.
Make an active defense roll against an attack. If you succeed, you take no damage, and may immediately make a shield bash attack as part of this maneuver against that creature with a +6 circumstance bonus. If you hit, you deal an additional +4d6 damage.

IRON SHELL
Level: Def 1 [Shield]
Action: Reaction
Range: Reach
Target: One attack
Duration: Instantaneous
Armor Token Cost: 1
You can use your shield to absorb some damage from an attack.
Make an active defense roll against an attack. If you succeed, you take no damage. If you fail, the attack hits you, but you gain DR 5/- against that attack.

JARRING BLOCK
Level: Def 6 [Shield]
Action: Reaction
Range: Reach
Target: One attack
Duration: Instantaneous
Armor Token Cost: 1
You can use your shield to absorb some damage from an attack.
You can initiate this maneuver when an adjacent opponent misses you with a melee attack. Make a disarm attempt against that opponent. You may add your shield bonus (including any enhancement bonuses your shield may have) to the check. You do not provoke an attack of opportunity for doing so, and your opponent cannot make a disarm attempt against you if you fail.

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