Artful Dodger Dead ?

[doctorhook]

Can anyone tell me why you would be an Artful Dodger instead of a Cunning Sneak.

With CS you can take Dark Deeds Armour (L14) and say L11.
Then you have virtually CA and "Hidden" 99% of the time.

With a -5 to all Defences most of the time.
You dont take OA's when you move as you are "Hidden" as well.

Why would anyone want to be an Artful Dodger.

Sly Fourish maybe the only thing I can see.
And of course level 1 - 10 CS is not hugely advantageous.

Please read this. Please? For the sake of your return key, you should read it.

EDIT: Please read this one too.

 

[Saeviomagy]

Okay so its a whole pile of feats.

Whereas at L11 the CS gets an effective +5 to all defences for Zero feats.

Not just OA's.

And he is 100% resistant to OA's in melee as he is hidden.

Okay no reason then, besides flavour.

There's also the fact that if you pick shadow assassin, you can run around the battlefield doling out damage to foes that miss you... There's other feats with similar flavour.

Positioning strike punting people 4 or 5 squares is pretty neat to boot.

 

[Celisasu]

There's also an assumption that the GM will let you have Armor of Dark Deeds. So if that magic item is denied this all goes out the door. The Artful Dodger isn't inherently dependent upon one item for what he does.

 

[Prestidigitalis]

There's also an assumption that the GM will let you have Armor of Dark Deeds. So if that magic item is denied this all goes out the door. The Artful Dodger isn't inherently dependent upon one item for what he does.

Very good point. There is a huge difference between building a Level N character on paper and growing one organically in an actual campaign with an actual DM.

Besides, "one trick ponies" both bore and irritate me.