# Heavy Armor Master > [!info] Feat Details > | | | > |---|---| > | **Source** | Player's Handbook (2014) | > | **Categories** | Buff, Warding | > | **Prerequisite** | Proficiency with heavy armor | --- ## Description You can use your armor to deflect strikes that would kill others. You gain the following benefits: - Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20. - While you are wearing heavy armor, bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage that you take from nonmagical attacks is reduced by 3.