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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malcyrus" data-source="post: 1205264" data-attributes="member: 14065">I'm running a DD vampire cohort to my pale master PC in the Exodus epic arena I play in at RPOL.  I'll say the DD is HUGELY beneficial as a cohort and has substantially increased the staying power of the PC.  Mechanics-wise, I'd say that Harm's Way and Defensive strike should be able to work together.  If you declare an attack versus the charge within the threatened range of the DD, that action provokes an AoO and the DD may switch with the charge.  When the attacker makes his attack roll, his intention is to attack the charge, and that action which provokes the AoO.  Harm's way just makes the target different from what the attacker intended, but in no way changes the action of the attacker.Harm's way doesn't seem to work in conjunction with Deflect Attack as the latter requires you to make an opposed attack roll, which suggests that the attacker has already made his roll.  There is nothing to suggest that Defensive strike wouldn't work with deflect strike, though.  Defensive strike just expands the list of actions that provoke an AoO, as far as a DD is concerned.   It shouldn't be limited in terms of the number of times it may be used by anything other than the normal limits on AoOs.It is pretty funny, though, to imagine the DD switching places 5 times with her charge against a full attack routine.</blockquote>