I'm in the process of making a "Frustrater" character -- someone whose schtick is to mess other people up. His two favorite feats are Unbalance Opponent and Improved Feint -- the one lets him get rid of those pesky Strength bonuses to hit when bad guys accost him, while the other lets him bypass the Dexterity of those darn Fast heroes who try not to get whacked.
So, a couple questions in that regard:
If you are using Weapon Finesse, are you affected by Unbalance Opponent (ie, since you're applying Dex, and not Strength, to your attack, does Unbalance Opponent fail to affect you)?
If you slap someone with Unbalance Opponent and then try to disarm them, do they get their Strength bonus on the opposed disarm check? How about the opposed Strength roll on a trip? Would they be forced to use Dex instead?
The good book states that any time you cause somebody to lose their Dex bonus to AC, they lose Dodge bonuses as well. If you use Improved Feint to cause your next attack on someone to bypass their Dex bonus, does it bypass their Dodge bonuses as well?
If anyone can point me at (or ask on the WotC board for) official rulings on these guys, I'd love to hear them. My plan right now is for Weapon Finesse to "Counter" Unbalance Opponent (if you used a feat to get WF, you shouldn't be affected by Unbalancing), and for Disarm and Trip checks to be unaffected by Unbalancing -- since those aren't "targeting you" as the book says.
By the way, my somewhat dangerous plan right now is for this guy to run around his opponent, deliberately provoking an Attack of Opportunity that will likely miss, since the opponent gets no Strength bonus and my hero has Mobility. Then, when they miss, I use Agile Riposte to whack them -- and then whack them again with my attack action. I'm hoping to just irritate the heck out of stupid ogre-types.
So, a couple questions in that regard:
If you are using Weapon Finesse, are you affected by Unbalance Opponent (ie, since you're applying Dex, and not Strength, to your attack, does Unbalance Opponent fail to affect you)?
If you slap someone with Unbalance Opponent and then try to disarm them, do they get their Strength bonus on the opposed disarm check? How about the opposed Strength roll on a trip? Would they be forced to use Dex instead?
The good book states that any time you cause somebody to lose their Dex bonus to AC, they lose Dodge bonuses as well. If you use Improved Feint to cause your next attack on someone to bypass their Dex bonus, does it bypass their Dodge bonuses as well?
If anyone can point me at (or ask on the WotC board for) official rulings on these guys, I'd love to hear them. My plan right now is for Weapon Finesse to "Counter" Unbalance Opponent (if you used a feat to get WF, you shouldn't be affected by Unbalancing), and for Disarm and Trip checks to be unaffected by Unbalancing -- since those aren't "targeting you" as the book says.
By the way, my somewhat dangerous plan right now is for this guy to run around his opponent, deliberately provoking an Attack of Opportunity that will likely miss, since the opponent gets no Strength bonus and my hero has Mobility. Then, when they miss, I use Agile Riposte to whack them -- and then whack them again with my attack action. I'm hoping to just irritate the heck out of stupid ogre-types.
