Dodge + Midnight Dodge + Elusive Target

[blargney the second]

If you have both Dodge and Midnight Dodge and each one is targeting a different dodge partner, do you gain the benefits of Elusive Target against each of them?

 

[The Souljourner]

WTH is midnight dodge?

I would say that if you have taken not one but two crappy feats that work like dodge, I'd let anything that worked against one work against both, just to try to balance out the suckage (but maybe midnight dodge is something cooler? Certainly an interesting name)

-Nate

 

[blargney the second]

Midnight Dodge is from Magic of Incarnum... for a non-incarnumer it's basically a carbon copy of Dodge.

 

[Erywin]

Believe me, with Blarg's current Crusader/Rogue build, dodge is nothing to laugh at, it routinely has my bad guys getting gimped

Cheers,
E

PS. Blarg email me the text from the book so I can take a look at it? Sucks not having access to anything up here.

 

[blargney the second]

Here's a paraphrase of the feat:

Midnight Dodge
Prereqs: Con 13, Dex 13
Ben: Gain 1 essentia. During your turn you can make someone your Midnight Dodge partner and gain a dodge bonus to AC against them equal to the amount of essentia you invested in this feat at the beginning of the day.
Special: It counts as Dodge for feats, PrCs, or other special abilities.

-blarg

 

[James McMurray]

I'd allow it. It says it counts as dodge for feats, so should probably count as dodge for feats.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

im going to say you cant target 2 people, unless you can take dodge twice and dodge two people at once.

 

[pawsplay]

I'd allow it. It says it counts as dodge for feats, so should probably count as dodge for feats.

Yup. Congratulations, you've won!

 

[Sejs]

im going to say you cant target 2 people, unless you can take dodge twice and dodge two people at once.

Which is essentially what this is. Dodge, twice.

My personal take: Midnight Dodge says it counts as Dodge for feats. Elusive Target is a feat, therefore Midnight dodge works for Elusive Target, thus two dodge partners at once.

The other way to get a very similar effect is to have the Combat Focus feats. One of them lets you reassign your dodge partner as an immediate action.

 

[Nifft]

Alert! Alert! Desert Wind Dodge has similar language regarding qualifications... what's the interaction with Elusive Target there?

Cheers, -- N