Arcane Ward

In a world of certain strife and violence, one must be prepared to be struck. It's wiser to reduce all damage as best you can. 
Spend a single magic point, when struck by a damaging attack to erect a magical barrier to reduce harm from a single -nonpenetrating- strike.  

Effect

A magic barrier surrounds the caster to try and reduce damage as much as possible. 

Increase your ARMOR rating by 1d6 for a single attack.

Manifestation

Around the caster, a barrier - coded to the arcana that caster prefers most- forms to absorb as much damage as possible. Under stress, the shield will creek and groan,  only popping if the damage still gets through.

Material Components

An Arcane device

Effect Duration

For one of the enemy's attacks

Effect Casting Time

One Free Action

Range

Self