Brace (Melee)

See also: Brace (Ranged)

Brace (Melee) is a weapon action available to characters proficient in and wielding a glaive or pike in their main hand.

Description

Spend 6 m (20 ft) of your movement. For the rest of your turn, roll melee damage twice and use the highest result.

Properties

Cost

 6 m / 20 ft Movement Speed

Details

 Recharge: Short rest

Duration: 1 turn

Technical details

UID

Shout_Steady

Spell flags

IsDefaultWeaponAction

Condition: Braced

 Braced

Duration: 1 turn

• On damage rolls, roll twice and use the higher result.

How to learn

Granted by wielding the following weapon types with proficiency:

•  Glaives
•  Pikes

Notes

• The effect of Brace is equivalent the  Savage Attacker feat and stacks with it. With both, each damage die is rolled 3 times and the highest value is taken.
• When used with  Savage Attacker and  Great Weapon Fighting, Brace will do a first roll and reroll if it is a 1 or 2, and then roll 2 more times and use the highest result. When used in this way, the effects of Savage Attacker and Great Weapon Fighting still function together, but with diminishing returns (see tables).

Bugs

• When combined with other dice rerolling features, the combat log may show an incorrect number of rerolls.

Math

Average bonus damage of Brace

Average bonus damage per die rolled

Damage die	Average bonus damage	Average damage roll
1d4	0.63	3.13
1d6	0.97	4.47
1d8	1.31	5.81
1d10	1.65	7.15
1d12	1.99	8.49
2d6	1.94	8.94

Average bonus damage of Brace and Savage Attacker

Average bonus damage per die rolled

Damage die	Average bonus damage	Average damage roll	Avg bonus damage added by Savage Attacker (or Brace)
1d4	0.94	3.44	0.32
1d6	1.46	4.96	0.49
1d8	1.97	6.47	0.66
1d10	2.47	7.97	0.82
1d12	2.98	9.48	0.99
2d6	2.92	9.92	0.98

Average bonus damage of Brace and Savage Attacker and Great Weapon Fighting

Average bonus damage per die rolled

Damage die	Average bonus damage	Average damage roll	Avg bonus damage added by Great Weapon Fighting	Avg bonus damage added by Savage Attacker
1d4	1.08	3.58	0.14	0.21
1d6	1.62	5.12	0.16	0.35
1d8	2.13	6.63	0.16	0.51
1d10	2.64	8.14	0.17	0.67
1d12	3.14	9.64	0.16	0.83
2d6	3.24	10.24	0.32	0.70

External links

• Savage Attacker and Great Weapon Fighting calculations by Kalaeman