Dodge

[Drowbane]

House Rule: constant +1 dodge bonus.

 

[Sidekick]

I, like a lot of other people House Ruled it to give a +1 dodge bonus against all.

works fine, makes it a valuable feat (rather than a stepping stone), but most importantly - it makes combat easier and faster for the player. No confusion and hving the guy to assigned your dodge bonus to dying on you.

simple and effective.

sidekick the lazy DM...

 

[wayne62682]

I'll throw my lot into the "houseruled it to give a flat +1AC bonus" camp. In my group we always forget to apply it with that silly "designate one opponent" nonsense. Having it give a straight +1 makes it a viable feat for everyone in the game, and we have not found it overpowered at all.

 

[Jdvn1]

It's interesting that the "houseruled" camp is the most vocal on here by far, but 'Intent' is just as large a group, and 'RAW' is still biggest. And no one has said they play it as RAW rather than intent.

 

[Infiniti2000]

It's interesting that the "houseruled" camp is the most vocal on here by far, but 'Intent' is just as large a group, and 'RAW' is still biggest. And no one has said they play it as RAW rather than intent.

It's possible that a lot of those people merely responded to your question rather than giving you a possibly useless response of "I houserule it." I had almost selected a different option than Other despite the houserule I have because I was thinking that would be more useful to you.

 

[Nail]

I don't even know who Chris Lindsay is. Did he write anything significant?

Complete Psionics, for one. His name is scattered about the WotC web-site....

 

[Artoomis]

How so, when Speak is an action, and an AoO is not?

-Hyp.

My mistake. I was thinking AoO was an action.

Upon review, it seems the follwing is true:

1. You can change the opponent for Dodge upon ANY action. Note that this is NOT restricted to your own actions, which is also interesting.

2. Actions are: Standard Action, Move Action, Full-round Action, Free Action (only taken during another action), Swift Action, and Immediate Action.

So, technically, you could change opponents for dodge once per any action of anyone. I would, personally, not include Free Actions, Swift Actions or Immediate Actions since they only occur when another action is happening - in the case of immediate actions, that action is someone else's but still....

That's pretty close to a blanket +1. About the only time it is not, I think, would be when you provoke mutiple AoOs during one action.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

When I voted, I voted for Intent. That was how we played it before we houseruled the feat.

Our houserule is the same as everyone's above: flat +1 bonus to AC.

 

[KarinsDad]

Complete Psionics, for one. His name is scattered about the WotC web-site....

I knew somebody had to be responsible for that.

 

[Jdvn1]

It's possible that a lot of those people merely responded to your question rather than giving you a possibly useless response of "I houserule it." I had almost selected a different option than Other despite the houserule I have because I was thinking that would be more useful to you.

I'm not sure it's possible to distinguish between 'Intent' and 'RAW' without reading the original post...