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If you guard someone by standing in front of them then all attacks have to go through you first.\footnote{This includes missile attacks only if you could otherwise evade them.} Any enemy making a successful attack on you can choose to damage you, or to make another roll (as a free action, costing no Initiative) at their real target.
If you guard someone by standing in front of them then all attacks have to go through you first.\footnote{This includes missile attacks only if you could otherwise evade them.} Any enemy making a successful attack on you can choose to damage you, or to make another roll (as a free action, costing no Initiative) at their real target.
Guarding costs 4 Initiative, as the character must both focus on helping a companion and focus on their own defence.
Guarding costs 4 Initiative, as the character must both focus on helping a companion and focus on their own defence.
To put it another way, guarding someone costs 2 Initiative, and defence costs 2 Initiative as normal.