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<blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 5446635" data-attributes="member: 48762">The <a href="http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/" target="_blank">PRD</a> does, in fact, specifically say that fighting defensively is a full round action, BUT, it can also be done as a standard action giving a different TYPE of bonus to AC.&nbsp; But it just looks like the full-round action makes the bonus to AC a Dodge bonus but the standard action gives an untyped bonus to AC, which is probably better, anyway.&nbsp; Very weird discrepancy here, it seems to me... I don't understand this difference at all.To quote the PRD,&quot;Fighting Defensively as a Standard Action: You can choose to fight defensively when attacking. If you do so, you take a –4 penalty on all attacks in a round to gain a +2 to AC for the same round.Fighting Defensively as a Full-Round Action: You can choose to fight defensively when taking a full-attack action. If you do so, you take a –4 penalty on all attacks in a round to gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC for the same round.&quot;Pease go to the PRD and search for &quot;fighting defensively&quot; and explain this difference to me, someone? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leif, post: 5446635, member: 48762"] The [url=http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/]PRD[/url] does, in fact, specifically say that fighting defensively is a full round action, BUT, it can also be done as a standard action giving a different TYPE of bonus to AC. But it just looks like the full-round action makes the bonus to AC a Dodge bonus but the standard action gives an untyped bonus to AC, which is probably better, anyway. Very weird discrepancy here, it seems to me... I don't understand this difference at all. To quote the PRD, "Fighting Defensively as a Standard Action: You can choose to fight defensively when attacking. If you do so, you take a –4 penalty on all attacks in a round to gain a +2 to AC for the same round. Fighting Defensively as a Full-Round Action: You can choose to fight defensively when taking a full-attack action. If you do so, you take a –4 penalty on all attacks in a round to gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC for the same round." Pease go to the PRD and search for "fighting defensively" and explain this difference to me, someone? :) [/QUOTE]

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