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While the Defender stance is active, the guardian may perform a ''defensive roll'' out of turn in response to a successful attack roll made against himself or an ally in one of his adjacent squares. The defensive roll is equivalent to an attack action out of turn, and is made at 1d20 + the guardian's [[#Defense Bonus|defense bonus]].
Like with iterative attacks, the guardian may make a second defensive roll with a —-5 penalty at +11 BAB, and a third defensive roll with a —-10 penalty at +16 BAB. A guardian may always choose to take a readied [[SRD:Standard Actions|standard action]] to perform an extra defensive roll at a +5 bonus, at the cost of having no attacks during his turn.
When a defensive roll beats the targeted attack roll, the target of the attack takes no damage. Instead, the guardian takes half of the damage the target would have otherwise taken. If used to defend against an attack made against the guardian himself, a successful defensive roll effectively halves the damage dealt.
'''{{Anchor|Ward}} {{Ex}}:''' An experienced guardian can even gird himself and his allies against magic. A 7th-level guardian projects a [[Ward (3.5e Creature Ability)|ward]] equal to 10 + half his [[#Defense Bonus|defense bonus]], that extends to adjacent allies. This ward is not supernatural in nature, and instead represents the guardian's ability to quickly and decisively repel and deflect magical and touch attacks from himself and his closeby allies.
'''{{Anchor|Aggravate}} {{Ex}}:''' At 8th level, the penalty to attack and damage rolls of a [[#Provoke|Provoked]] enemy increases to —-10, and the maximum range in which [[#Provoke|Provoke]] is sustained doubles to 60 feet. Furthermore, any enemy within the guardian's [[#Entrenchment|Entrenchment]] area automatically takes a —-4 penalty to attack rolls and damage rolls, except when attacking the guardian. If these two penalties apply to the same target, they do not stack.
'''{{Anchor|Supreme Stonewall}} {{Ex}}:''' The guardian's defense becomes so solid that it stops nearly everything in its tracks. A 9th-level guardian's [[#Stonewall|stonewall]] ability may extend to a single adjacent 5-foot square. For all intents and purposes, the guardian occupies both squares, and both squares cannot be [[SRD:Tumble Skill|Tumbled]] through. Furthermore, the guardian actively blocks line of effect to any creature or object behind him. Area effects that hit the guardian frontally do not pass through him, and do not reach any place behind him. The guardian grants [[SRD:Cover#Total Cover|total cover]] to any creature within 10 feet of him against attacks or area effects that have to pass through his squares to reach the creature.
