Stance
| Level: | Placid Lake 7 |
| Prerequisites: | Two Placid Lake techniques |
| Action: | 1 swift action |
| Range: | Personal |
| Target: | You |
| Duration: | Stance |
You become the calm breeze, the tranquil waters, and essence of stillness.
While you maintain this stance, your enemies feel a sense of imperturbable tranquility around you. Your opponents treat all squares you threaten as difficult terrain.
In addition, while you are under the effect of Stillness, you gain a +2 bonus to AC, CMD, and saving throws. If an opponent targets you or includes you in the area of an attack, spell, ability, or other effect more than once during the same round, this bonus increases by +2 for each additional time that opponent does so beyond the first. For example, if an enemy makes a full attack against you with three attacks, you would gain +2 AC against the first attack, +4 AC against the second attack, and +6 AC against the third.
Finally, each action an opponent takes that increases the bonus to AC, CMD, and saving throws also deals 2d6 points of psychic damage to that opponent. This damage is dealt after the action that triggered it is resolved.