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Does the Vanguard Style bonus stack with itself?



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The Vanguard Style feat states :




While using this style, when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save. Your ally gains a +2 bonus to all Reflex saves while adjacent to you until the beginning of your next turn.




Unlike other effects based on attacks of opportunity and the aid another action, like Bodyguard, the target keeps the bonus until the vanguard's next turn beginning.



This bonus seems to be untyped and as stated about the Aid Another action in combat :




Multiple characters can aid the same friend, and similar bonuses stack.




Does that mean that if an ally of a character using the Vanguard Style is required to make several Reflex saving throws during the same round, the user of the Vanguard Style can use it each time (with enough attacks of opportunity available) and, each time, the ally will obtain a cumulative +2 bonus on its Reflex save ?



I can't find anything wrong with this reasoning but the result seems rather strong to me, especially if a build improving the aid another bonuses is involved.










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    The Vanguard Style feat states :




    While using this style, when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save. Your ally gains a +2 bonus to all Reflex saves while adjacent to you until the beginning of your next turn.




    Unlike other effects based on attacks of opportunity and the aid another action, like Bodyguard, the target keeps the bonus until the vanguard's next turn beginning.



    This bonus seems to be untyped and as stated about the Aid Another action in combat :




    Multiple characters can aid the same friend, and similar bonuses stack.




    Does that mean that if an ally of a character using the Vanguard Style is required to make several Reflex saving throws during the same round, the user of the Vanguard Style can use it each time (with enough attacks of opportunity available) and, each time, the ally will obtain a cumulative +2 bonus on its Reflex save ?



    I can't find anything wrong with this reasoning but the result seems rather strong to me, especially if a build improving the aid another bonuses is involved.










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      The Vanguard Style feat states :




      While using this style, when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save. Your ally gains a +2 bonus to all Reflex saves while adjacent to you until the beginning of your next turn.




      Unlike other effects based on attacks of opportunity and the aid another action, like Bodyguard, the target keeps the bonus until the vanguard's next turn beginning.



      This bonus seems to be untyped and as stated about the Aid Another action in combat :




      Multiple characters can aid the same friend, and similar bonuses stack.




      Does that mean that if an ally of a character using the Vanguard Style is required to make several Reflex saving throws during the same round, the user of the Vanguard Style can use it each time (with enough attacks of opportunity available) and, each time, the ally will obtain a cumulative +2 bonus on its Reflex save ?



      I can't find anything wrong with this reasoning but the result seems rather strong to me, especially if a build improving the aid another bonuses is involved.










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      The Vanguard Style feat states :




      While using this style, when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save. Your ally gains a +2 bonus to all Reflex saves while adjacent to you until the beginning of your next turn.




      Unlike other effects based on attacks of opportunity and the aid another action, like Bodyguard, the target keeps the bonus until the vanguard's next turn beginning.



      This bonus seems to be untyped and as stated about the Aid Another action in combat :




      Multiple characters can aid the same friend, and similar bonuses stack.




      Does that mean that if an ally of a character using the Vanguard Style is required to make several Reflex saving throws during the same round, the user of the Vanguard Style can use it each time (with enough attacks of opportunity available) and, each time, the ally will obtain a cumulative +2 bonus on its Reflex save ?



      I can't find anything wrong with this reasoning but the result seems rather strong to me, especially if a build improving the aid another bonuses is involved.







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          No, it cannot stack with itself



          Bonuses from the same source (feat, spell, class ability, racial ability, etc) will never stack with themselves, as clarified in the definition of Bonus:




          Bonuses are numerical values that are added to checks and statistical scores. Most bonuses have a type, and as a general rule, bonuses of the same type are not cumulative (do not “stack”)—only the greater bonus granted applies.



          The important aspect of bonus types is that two bonuses of the same type don’t generally stack. With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.




          So, using the same feat twice will not grant it's bonus twice. Similarly, using the spell Bull's Strength twice (even if two different casters do it) will not grant a total of +8 to Strength.



          Unless said ability specifically says that it stacks, but those are rare. For example, the Fleet feat.



          As for being strong or not, I would rather not suggest allowing an exception and trust (with a grain of salt) that the developer who wrote it to decide if the feat balanced or not. There are feats with similar effects that call that they stack, and a bunch of Aid Another(-ish) type feats that do not stack, and the benefit of this feat is granting an ally the benefits of another feat for one round (Lightning Reflexes) which seems balanced (to me) for a feat. Especially if you consider that despite the requirement, you are not actually required to use a heavy shield (it could be a tower shield), and you could grant the Vanguard Style bonus to multiple allies against a single area attack.



          Multiple Aid Another actions from different allies will stack. While most of Paizo's community mostly agrees that one character still cannot make multiple Aid Another on the same person (evidenced by how it also didn't stack in D&D 3.5), it is unclear and should be discussed with your GM. Here, however, the source of the bonus is not the Aid Another action, but the Vanguard Style feat.



          Similarly, a cavalier of the order of the dragon cannot use their Aid Allies multiple times on the same ally, because the ability is not increasing the bonuses from Aid Another, but replacing its effects by something else. However, it may be used together with other abilities that increase the bonus received from Aid Another, such as the Helpful trait.



          If ruled that they should stack, there are several combinations of class abilities, feats, and traits that can increase the bonus from Aid Another, and if this mechanic is interpreted as presented here, you could spend 3 or 4 AoO attempts to get a +20 (or higher) to reflex saves on demand. See order of the dragon, Helpful, Pathfinder Chronicler, Inheritor etc. This wouldn't be that powerful if they also couldn't do the same to grant up to +14 to AC whenever necessary combining Benevolent, Bodyguard, and so many other abilities that can increase Aid Another's bonus to AC by spending attacks of opportunity out of their turn.



          Vanguard Style alone is pretty bad



          The feat, as written, has very similar wording to the Bodyguard feat, which, according to this FAQ on Bodyguard, still has the same limitations of the Aid Another action:




          • The attacker must be within your threatened area;

          • The ally must be adjacent.

          This means that you will only be able to help on reflex saves if the attacker is very close to both of you, such as a dragon's breath or a point-blank fireball. Which is why it must be combined with Combat Patrol (which increases your threatened area) and reach weapons so it can be efficient. Using the next feat in the chain, Vanguard Hustle removes the attacker's restriction on the bonus as long as that ally is within your threatened area, but the attack must still be within your threatened area to use Bodyguard or Vanguard Style on another ally, or to activate it again on an ally that left the area.



          While the author of Bodyguard, Jason Nelson, has clarified that he originally intended for Bodyguard to be used against any attackers, not only those who you threaten, he also said that he misremembered how those rules worked and it might have affected the wording of the feat. But even after he posted that clarified, the FAQ that came afterwards has clear on it requiring the attacker to be within the threatened area of the bodyguard character.



          That said, if you are the GM, you may rule the feat however you want outside of PFS, which is the only scenario where GMs are required to rule according to the rules as written. That would give more power to the feat, sure, but the feat alone is pretty bad, as I said earlier, only getting better (due to the increased range and options) when applied with other feats. Ruling that it works on regardless of the location of the attacker simply means that one specific (and rare) use of Aid Another will get buffed, nothing else.






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            I don't believe the Bodyguard FAQ is relevant here. The Aid Another Action specifically requires an attack roll, which I believe is what requires the Threatening. Vanguard is improving Reflex saves, and does not appear to involve an enemy at all.
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            "When an adjacent ally is attacked, you may use an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s AC. "
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            "when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save."
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            FAQ aside, I think using the RAI (at the very least outside of Society play, if not within it as well) is a logical way of running both feat, and this answer would be better if it merely pointed out possible issues instead of soapboxing.
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            @Ifusaso RAI only works when the developers have said anything about the feat. Here, only the original author of Bodyguard has said anything and that was about his version of the feat pre-publishing. We have no RAI for Vanguard Style.
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          Multiple bonuses from the same source without a type do not stack, unless they specifically say otherwise.



          In this case, Vanguard Style states it is an Aid Another action. The Aid Another action explicitly states




          Multiple characters can aid the same friend, and similar bonuses stack.




          where is explicitly states that the stacking rules are modified here.



          The intention of this sentence seems to be that "each aiding character counts as a different source for stacking purposes", but it doesn't quite state it. Instead, it explicitly states that similar bonuses stack without restricting it to similar bonuses from multiple different characters only.



          Usually this doesn't matter, as a single character finds it difficult to aid another multiple times on the same action of their friend. However, this use of aid another extends the duration of the bonus, hence the quirk.



          I'd argue that this is a typo. But if you want to follow the rules as written,



          The Vanguard Style bonus stacks with itself



          About the only way this would be "too strong" is if you can exploit a way to do something useful with a huge reflex save bonus, and trigger multiple reflex saves for a cheap enough cost that the useful thing is strong.



          If your ally is taking 10 reflex saves while adjacent to you and after the 5th one they auto-succeed, that wouldn't be a worry to me. It is a pretty crazy bonus, but it is to a reactive scenario that isn't what you call common.



          I'm unaware of a way you can turn a huge reflex save bonus into being invulnerable in general, or even better use a huge reflex save bonus into a tool to defeat a foe. I'm also unaware of a cheap way to induce 10 or so reflex saves at-will (so as to always have the bonus up).






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            (Although it's for Pathfinder's antecedent D&D 3.5 — but uses similar Pathfinder language — , this question and its answer addresses the typing and stackability (stackiness? stackosity?) of multiple successful aid another attempts.)
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            I realize my remark about this situation being strong drew more attention than I expected. I mentioned it because with the help of just some traits or items, some could easily raise the bonus to a cumulative +4 or more. Nonetheless, this remains specific to reflex saves and, fortunately, I'm also unaware at how it could be exploited to do something else.
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            +4? You are thinking low. I can reach +8 before level 10, per AoO.
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            For the record, using this interpretion ("Vanguard Style is an Aid Another action"), wouldn't it also mean that the attacker must be within the Vanguard Style character's threatened area (as described under Aid Another) in order to qualify for the Aid Another action? So it would only grant reflex save bonus against point-blank fireballs?
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            @ShadowKras In this case, it should be comparable to the Bodyguard feat : depending on where you are looking for, it's right, or not...
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          No, it cannot stack with itself



          Bonuses from the same source (feat, spell, class ability, racial ability, etc) will never stack with themselves, as clarified in the definition of Bonus:




          Bonuses are numerical values that are added to checks and statistical scores. Most bonuses have a type, and as a general rule, bonuses of the same type are not cumulative (do not “stack”)—only the greater bonus granted applies.



          The important aspect of bonus types is that two bonuses of the same type don’t generally stack. With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.




          So, using the same feat twice will not grant it's bonus twice. Similarly, using the spell Bull's Strength twice (even if two different casters do it) will not grant a total of +8 to Strength.



          Unless said ability specifically says that it stacks, but those are rare. For example, the Fleet feat.



          As for being strong or not, I would rather not suggest allowing an exception and trust (with a grain of salt) that the developer who wrote it to decide if the feat balanced or not. There are feats with similar effects that call that they stack, and a bunch of Aid Another(-ish) type feats that do not stack, and the benefit of this feat is granting an ally the benefits of another feat for one round (Lightning Reflexes) which seems balanced (to me) for a feat. Especially if you consider that despite the requirement, you are not actually required to use a heavy shield (it could be a tower shield), and you could grant the Vanguard Style bonus to multiple allies against a single area attack.



          Multiple Aid Another actions from different allies will stack. While most of Paizo's community mostly agrees that one character still cannot make multiple Aid Another on the same person (evidenced by how it also didn't stack in D&D 3.5), it is unclear and should be discussed with your GM. Here, however, the source of the bonus is not the Aid Another action, but the Vanguard Style feat.



          Similarly, a cavalier of the order of the dragon cannot use their Aid Allies multiple times on the same ally, because the ability is not increasing the bonuses from Aid Another, but replacing its effects by something else. However, it may be used together with other abilities that increase the bonus received from Aid Another, such as the Helpful trait.



          If ruled that they should stack, there are several combinations of class abilities, feats, and traits that can increase the bonus from Aid Another, and if this mechanic is interpreted as presented here, you could spend 3 or 4 AoO attempts to get a +20 (or higher) to reflex saves on demand. See order of the dragon, Helpful, Pathfinder Chronicler, Inheritor etc. This wouldn't be that powerful if they also couldn't do the same to grant up to +14 to AC whenever necessary combining Benevolent, Bodyguard, and so many other abilities that can increase Aid Another's bonus to AC by spending attacks of opportunity out of their turn.



          Vanguard Style alone is pretty bad



          The feat, as written, has very similar wording to the Bodyguard feat, which, according to this FAQ on Bodyguard, still has the same limitations of the Aid Another action:




          • The attacker must be within your threatened area;

          • The ally must be adjacent.

          This means that you will only be able to help on reflex saves if the attacker is very close to both of you, such as a dragon's breath or a point-blank fireball. Which is why it must be combined with Combat Patrol (which increases your threatened area) and reach weapons so it can be efficient. Using the next feat in the chain, Vanguard Hustle removes the attacker's restriction on the bonus as long as that ally is within your threatened area, but the attack must still be within your threatened area to use Bodyguard or Vanguard Style on another ally, or to activate it again on an ally that left the area.



          While the author of Bodyguard, Jason Nelson, has clarified that he originally intended for Bodyguard to be used against any attackers, not only those who you threaten, he also said that he misremembered how those rules worked and it might have affected the wording of the feat. But even after he posted that clarified, the FAQ that came afterwards has clear on it requiring the attacker to be within the threatened area of the bodyguard character.



          That said, if you are the GM, you may rule the feat however you want outside of PFS, which is the only scenario where GMs are required to rule according to the rules as written. That would give more power to the feat, sure, but the feat alone is pretty bad, as I said earlier, only getting better (due to the increased range and options) when applied with other feats. Ruling that it works on regardless of the location of the attacker simply means that one specific (and rare) use of Aid Another will get buffed, nothing else.






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            I don't believe the Bodyguard FAQ is relevant here. The Aid Another Action specifically requires an attack roll, which I believe is what requires the Threatening. Vanguard is improving Reflex saves, and does not appear to involve an enemy at all.
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            "When an adjacent ally is attacked, you may use an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s AC. "
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            – ShadowKras
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            "when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save."
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            FAQ aside, I think using the RAI (at the very least outside of Society play, if not within it as well) is a logical way of running both feat, and this answer would be better if it merely pointed out possible issues instead of soapboxing.
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            @Ifusaso RAI only works when the developers have said anything about the feat. Here, only the original author of Bodyguard has said anything and that was about his version of the feat pre-publishing. We have no RAI for Vanguard Style.
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          No, it cannot stack with itself



          Bonuses from the same source (feat, spell, class ability, racial ability, etc) will never stack with themselves, as clarified in the definition of Bonus:




          Bonuses are numerical values that are added to checks and statistical scores. Most bonuses have a type, and as a general rule, bonuses of the same type are not cumulative (do not “stack”)—only the greater bonus granted applies.



          The important aspect of bonus types is that two bonuses of the same type don’t generally stack. With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.




          So, using the same feat twice will not grant it's bonus twice. Similarly, using the spell Bull's Strength twice (even if two different casters do it) will not grant a total of +8 to Strength.



          Unless said ability specifically says that it stacks, but those are rare. For example, the Fleet feat.



          As for being strong or not, I would rather not suggest allowing an exception and trust (with a grain of salt) that the developer who wrote it to decide if the feat balanced or not. There are feats with similar effects that call that they stack, and a bunch of Aid Another(-ish) type feats that do not stack, and the benefit of this feat is granting an ally the benefits of another feat for one round (Lightning Reflexes) which seems balanced (to me) for a feat. Especially if you consider that despite the requirement, you are not actually required to use a heavy shield (it could be a tower shield), and you could grant the Vanguard Style bonus to multiple allies against a single area attack.



          Multiple Aid Another actions from different allies will stack. While most of Paizo's community mostly agrees that one character still cannot make multiple Aid Another on the same person (evidenced by how it also didn't stack in D&D 3.5), it is unclear and should be discussed with your GM. Here, however, the source of the bonus is not the Aid Another action, but the Vanguard Style feat.



          Similarly, a cavalier of the order of the dragon cannot use their Aid Allies multiple times on the same ally, because the ability is not increasing the bonuses from Aid Another, but replacing its effects by something else. However, it may be used together with other abilities that increase the bonus received from Aid Another, such as the Helpful trait.



          If ruled that they should stack, there are several combinations of class abilities, feats, and traits that can increase the bonus from Aid Another, and if this mechanic is interpreted as presented here, you could spend 3 or 4 AoO attempts to get a +20 (or higher) to reflex saves on demand. See order of the dragon, Helpful, Pathfinder Chronicler, Inheritor etc. This wouldn't be that powerful if they also couldn't do the same to grant up to +14 to AC whenever necessary combining Benevolent, Bodyguard, and so many other abilities that can increase Aid Another's bonus to AC by spending attacks of opportunity out of their turn.



          Vanguard Style alone is pretty bad



          The feat, as written, has very similar wording to the Bodyguard feat, which, according to this FAQ on Bodyguard, still has the same limitations of the Aid Another action:




          • The attacker must be within your threatened area;

          • The ally must be adjacent.

          This means that you will only be able to help on reflex saves if the attacker is very close to both of you, such as a dragon's breath or a point-blank fireball. Which is why it must be combined with Combat Patrol (which increases your threatened area) and reach weapons so it can be efficient. Using the next feat in the chain, Vanguard Hustle removes the attacker's restriction on the bonus as long as that ally is within your threatened area, but the attack must still be within your threatened area to use Bodyguard or Vanguard Style on another ally, or to activate it again on an ally that left the area.



          While the author of Bodyguard, Jason Nelson, has clarified that he originally intended for Bodyguard to be used against any attackers, not only those who you threaten, he also said that he misremembered how those rules worked and it might have affected the wording of the feat. But even after he posted that clarified, the FAQ that came afterwards has clear on it requiring the attacker to be within the threatened area of the bodyguard character.



          That said, if you are the GM, you may rule the feat however you want outside of PFS, which is the only scenario where GMs are required to rule according to the rules as written. That would give more power to the feat, sure, but the feat alone is pretty bad, as I said earlier, only getting better (due to the increased range and options) when applied with other feats. Ruling that it works on regardless of the location of the attacker simply means that one specific (and rare) use of Aid Another will get buffed, nothing else.






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            I don't believe the Bodyguard FAQ is relevant here. The Aid Another Action specifically requires an attack roll, which I believe is what requires the Threatening. Vanguard is improving Reflex saves, and does not appear to involve an enemy at all.
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            – YogoZuno
            yesterday










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            "When an adjacent ally is attacked, you may use an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s AC. "
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            – ShadowKras
            yesterday










          • $begingroup$
            "when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save."
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            – ShadowKras
            yesterday










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            FAQ aside, I think using the RAI (at the very least outside of Society play, if not within it as well) is a logical way of running both feat, and this answer would be better if it merely pointed out possible issues instead of soapboxing.
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            – Ifusaso
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            @Ifusaso RAI only works when the developers have said anything about the feat. Here, only the original author of Bodyguard has said anything and that was about his version of the feat pre-publishing. We have no RAI for Vanguard Style.
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          No, it cannot stack with itself



          Bonuses from the same source (feat, spell, class ability, racial ability, etc) will never stack with themselves, as clarified in the definition of Bonus:




          Bonuses are numerical values that are added to checks and statistical scores. Most bonuses have a type, and as a general rule, bonuses of the same type are not cumulative (do not “stack”)—only the greater bonus granted applies.



          The important aspect of bonus types is that two bonuses of the same type don’t generally stack. With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.




          So, using the same feat twice will not grant it's bonus twice. Similarly, using the spell Bull's Strength twice (even if two different casters do it) will not grant a total of +8 to Strength.



          Unless said ability specifically says that it stacks, but those are rare. For example, the Fleet feat.



          As for being strong or not, I would rather not suggest allowing an exception and trust (with a grain of salt) that the developer who wrote it to decide if the feat balanced or not. There are feats with similar effects that call that they stack, and a bunch of Aid Another(-ish) type feats that do not stack, and the benefit of this feat is granting an ally the benefits of another feat for one round (Lightning Reflexes) which seems balanced (to me) for a feat. Especially if you consider that despite the requirement, you are not actually required to use a heavy shield (it could be a tower shield), and you could grant the Vanguard Style bonus to multiple allies against a single area attack.



          Multiple Aid Another actions from different allies will stack. While most of Paizo's community mostly agrees that one character still cannot make multiple Aid Another on the same person (evidenced by how it also didn't stack in D&D 3.5), it is unclear and should be discussed with your GM. Here, however, the source of the bonus is not the Aid Another action, but the Vanguard Style feat.



          Similarly, a cavalier of the order of the dragon cannot use their Aid Allies multiple times on the same ally, because the ability is not increasing the bonuses from Aid Another, but replacing its effects by something else. However, it may be used together with other abilities that increase the bonus received from Aid Another, such as the Helpful trait.



          If ruled that they should stack, there are several combinations of class abilities, feats, and traits that can increase the bonus from Aid Another, and if this mechanic is interpreted as presented here, you could spend 3 or 4 AoO attempts to get a +20 (or higher) to reflex saves on demand. See order of the dragon, Helpful, Pathfinder Chronicler, Inheritor etc. This wouldn't be that powerful if they also couldn't do the same to grant up to +14 to AC whenever necessary combining Benevolent, Bodyguard, and so many other abilities that can increase Aid Another's bonus to AC by spending attacks of opportunity out of their turn.



          Vanguard Style alone is pretty bad



          The feat, as written, has very similar wording to the Bodyguard feat, which, according to this FAQ on Bodyguard, still has the same limitations of the Aid Another action:




          • The attacker must be within your threatened area;

          • The ally must be adjacent.

          This means that you will only be able to help on reflex saves if the attacker is very close to both of you, such as a dragon's breath or a point-blank fireball. Which is why it must be combined with Combat Patrol (which increases your threatened area) and reach weapons so it can be efficient. Using the next feat in the chain, Vanguard Hustle removes the attacker's restriction on the bonus as long as that ally is within your threatened area, but the attack must still be within your threatened area to use Bodyguard or Vanguard Style on another ally, or to activate it again on an ally that left the area.



          While the author of Bodyguard, Jason Nelson, has clarified that he originally intended for Bodyguard to be used against any attackers, not only those who you threaten, he also said that he misremembered how those rules worked and it might have affected the wording of the feat. But even after he posted that clarified, the FAQ that came afterwards has clear on it requiring the attacker to be within the threatened area of the bodyguard character.



          That said, if you are the GM, you may rule the feat however you want outside of PFS, which is the only scenario where GMs are required to rule according to the rules as written. That would give more power to the feat, sure, but the feat alone is pretty bad, as I said earlier, only getting better (due to the increased range and options) when applied with other feats. Ruling that it works on regardless of the location of the attacker simply means that one specific (and rare) use of Aid Another will get buffed, nothing else.






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          No, it cannot stack with itself



          Bonuses from the same source (feat, spell, class ability, racial ability, etc) will never stack with themselves, as clarified in the definition of Bonus:




          Bonuses are numerical values that are added to checks and statistical scores. Most bonuses have a type, and as a general rule, bonuses of the same type are not cumulative (do not “stack”)—only the greater bonus granted applies.



          The important aspect of bonus types is that two bonuses of the same type don’t generally stack. With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.




          So, using the same feat twice will not grant it's bonus twice. Similarly, using the spell Bull's Strength twice (even if two different casters do it) will not grant a total of +8 to Strength.



          Unless said ability specifically says that it stacks, but those are rare. For example, the Fleet feat.



          As for being strong or not, I would rather not suggest allowing an exception and trust (with a grain of salt) that the developer who wrote it to decide if the feat balanced or not. There are feats with similar effects that call that they stack, and a bunch of Aid Another(-ish) type feats that do not stack, and the benefit of this feat is granting an ally the benefits of another feat for one round (Lightning Reflexes) which seems balanced (to me) for a feat. Especially if you consider that despite the requirement, you are not actually required to use a heavy shield (it could be a tower shield), and you could grant the Vanguard Style bonus to multiple allies against a single area attack.



          Multiple Aid Another actions from different allies will stack. While most of Paizo's community mostly agrees that one character still cannot make multiple Aid Another on the same person (evidenced by how it also didn't stack in D&D 3.5), it is unclear and should be discussed with your GM. Here, however, the source of the bonus is not the Aid Another action, but the Vanguard Style feat.



          Similarly, a cavalier of the order of the dragon cannot use their Aid Allies multiple times on the same ally, because the ability is not increasing the bonuses from Aid Another, but replacing its effects by something else. However, it may be used together with other abilities that increase the bonus received from Aid Another, such as the Helpful trait.



          If ruled that they should stack, there are several combinations of class abilities, feats, and traits that can increase the bonus from Aid Another, and if this mechanic is interpreted as presented here, you could spend 3 or 4 AoO attempts to get a +20 (or higher) to reflex saves on demand. See order of the dragon, Helpful, Pathfinder Chronicler, Inheritor etc. This wouldn't be that powerful if they also couldn't do the same to grant up to +14 to AC whenever necessary combining Benevolent, Bodyguard, and so many other abilities that can increase Aid Another's bonus to AC by spending attacks of opportunity out of their turn.



          Vanguard Style alone is pretty bad



          The feat, as written, has very similar wording to the Bodyguard feat, which, according to this FAQ on Bodyguard, still has the same limitations of the Aid Another action:




          • The attacker must be within your threatened area;

          • The ally must be adjacent.

          This means that you will only be able to help on reflex saves if the attacker is very close to both of you, such as a dragon's breath or a point-blank fireball. Which is why it must be combined with Combat Patrol (which increases your threatened area) and reach weapons so it can be efficient. Using the next feat in the chain, Vanguard Hustle removes the attacker's restriction on the bonus as long as that ally is within your threatened area, but the attack must still be within your threatened area to use Bodyguard or Vanguard Style on another ally, or to activate it again on an ally that left the area.



          While the author of Bodyguard, Jason Nelson, has clarified that he originally intended for Bodyguard to be used against any attackers, not only those who you threaten, he also said that he misremembered how those rules worked and it might have affected the wording of the feat. But even after he posted that clarified, the FAQ that came afterwards has clear on it requiring the attacker to be within the threatened area of the bodyguard character.



          That said, if you are the GM, you may rule the feat however you want outside of PFS, which is the only scenario where GMs are required to rule according to the rules as written. That would give more power to the feat, sure, but the feat alone is pretty bad, as I said earlier, only getting better (due to the increased range and options) when applied with other feats. Ruling that it works on regardless of the location of the attacker simply means that one specific (and rare) use of Aid Another will get buffed, nothing else.







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            I don't believe the Bodyguard FAQ is relevant here. The Aid Another Action specifically requires an attack roll, which I believe is what requires the Threatening. Vanguard is improving Reflex saves, and does not appear to involve an enemy at all.
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            "When an adjacent ally is attacked, you may use an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s AC. "
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            "when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save."
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            FAQ aside, I think using the RAI (at the very least outside of Society play, if not within it as well) is a logical way of running both feat, and this answer would be better if it merely pointed out possible issues instead of soapboxing.
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            @Ifusaso RAI only works when the developers have said anything about the feat. Here, only the original author of Bodyguard has said anything and that was about his version of the feat pre-publishing. We have no RAI for Vanguard Style.
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            I don't believe the Bodyguard FAQ is relevant here. The Aid Another Action specifically requires an attack roll, which I believe is what requires the Threatening. Vanguard is improving Reflex saves, and does not appear to involve an enemy at all.
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            "When an adjacent ally is attacked, you may use an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s AC. "
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            – ShadowKras
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          • $begingroup$
            "when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save."
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          • $begingroup$
            FAQ aside, I think using the RAI (at the very least outside of Society play, if not within it as well) is a logical way of running both feat, and this answer would be better if it merely pointed out possible issues instead of soapboxing.
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            – Ifusaso
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          • $begingroup$
            @Ifusaso RAI only works when the developers have said anything about the feat. Here, only the original author of Bodyguard has said anything and that was about his version of the feat pre-publishing. We have no RAI for Vanguard Style.
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            – ShadowKras
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          I don't believe the Bodyguard FAQ is relevant here. The Aid Another Action specifically requires an attack roll, which I believe is what requires the Threatening. Vanguard is improving Reflex saves, and does not appear to involve an enemy at all.
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          – YogoZuno
          yesterday




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          I don't believe the Bodyguard FAQ is relevant here. The Aid Another Action specifically requires an attack roll, which I believe is what requires the Threatening. Vanguard is improving Reflex saves, and does not appear to involve an enemy at all.
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          – YogoZuno
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          $begingroup$
          "When an adjacent ally is attacked, you may use an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s AC. "
          $endgroup$
          – ShadowKras
          yesterday




          $begingroup$
          "When an adjacent ally is attacked, you may use an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s AC. "
          $endgroup$
          – ShadowKras
          yesterday












          $begingroup$
          "when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save."
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          – ShadowKras
          yesterday




          $begingroup$
          "when an adjacent ally is required to make a Reflex saving throw, you can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s Reflex save."
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          $begingroup$
          FAQ aside, I think using the RAI (at the very least outside of Society play, if not within it as well) is a logical way of running both feat, and this answer would be better if it merely pointed out possible issues instead of soapboxing.
          $endgroup$
          – Ifusaso
          17 hours ago




          $begingroup$
          FAQ aside, I think using the RAI (at the very least outside of Society play, if not within it as well) is a logical way of running both feat, and this answer would be better if it merely pointed out possible issues instead of soapboxing.
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          $begingroup$
          @Ifusaso RAI only works when the developers have said anything about the feat. Here, only the original author of Bodyguard has said anything and that was about his version of the feat pre-publishing. We have no RAI for Vanguard Style.
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          – ShadowKras
          17 hours ago





          $begingroup$
          @Ifusaso RAI only works when the developers have said anything about the feat. Here, only the original author of Bodyguard has said anything and that was about his version of the feat pre-publishing. We have no RAI for Vanguard Style.
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          – ShadowKras
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          Multiple bonuses from the same source without a type do not stack, unless they specifically say otherwise.



          In this case, Vanguard Style states it is an Aid Another action. The Aid Another action explicitly states




          Multiple characters can aid the same friend, and similar bonuses stack.




          where is explicitly states that the stacking rules are modified here.



          The intention of this sentence seems to be that "each aiding character counts as a different source for stacking purposes", but it doesn't quite state it. Instead, it explicitly states that similar bonuses stack without restricting it to similar bonuses from multiple different characters only.



          Usually this doesn't matter, as a single character finds it difficult to aid another multiple times on the same action of their friend. However, this use of aid another extends the duration of the bonus, hence the quirk.



          I'd argue that this is a typo. But if you want to follow the rules as written,



          The Vanguard Style bonus stacks with itself



          About the only way this would be "too strong" is if you can exploit a way to do something useful with a huge reflex save bonus, and trigger multiple reflex saves for a cheap enough cost that the useful thing is strong.



          If your ally is taking 10 reflex saves while adjacent to you and after the 5th one they auto-succeed, that wouldn't be a worry to me. It is a pretty crazy bonus, but it is to a reactive scenario that isn't what you call common.



          I'm unaware of a way you can turn a huge reflex save bonus into being invulnerable in general, or even better use a huge reflex save bonus into a tool to defeat a foe. I'm also unaware of a cheap way to induce 10 or so reflex saves at-will (so as to always have the bonus up).






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            (Although it's for Pathfinder's antecedent D&D 3.5 — but uses similar Pathfinder language — , this question and its answer addresses the typing and stackability (stackiness? stackosity?) of multiple successful aid another attempts.)
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            I realize my remark about this situation being strong drew more attention than I expected. I mentioned it because with the help of just some traits or items, some could easily raise the bonus to a cumulative +4 or more. Nonetheless, this remains specific to reflex saves and, fortunately, I'm also unaware at how it could be exploited to do something else.
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            +4? You are thinking low. I can reach +8 before level 10, per AoO.
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            For the record, using this interpretion ("Vanguard Style is an Aid Another action"), wouldn't it also mean that the attacker must be within the Vanguard Style character's threatened area (as described under Aid Another) in order to qualify for the Aid Another action? So it would only grant reflex save bonus against point-blank fireballs?
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            @ShadowKras In this case, it should be comparable to the Bodyguard feat : depending on where you are looking for, it's right, or not...
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          $begingroup$

          Multiple bonuses from the same source without a type do not stack, unless they specifically say otherwise.



          In this case, Vanguard Style states it is an Aid Another action. The Aid Another action explicitly states




          Multiple characters can aid the same friend, and similar bonuses stack.




          where is explicitly states that the stacking rules are modified here.



          The intention of this sentence seems to be that "each aiding character counts as a different source for stacking purposes", but it doesn't quite state it. Instead, it explicitly states that similar bonuses stack without restricting it to similar bonuses from multiple different characters only.



          Usually this doesn't matter, as a single character finds it difficult to aid another multiple times on the same action of their friend. However, this use of aid another extends the duration of the bonus, hence the quirk.



          I'd argue that this is a typo. But if you want to follow the rules as written,



          The Vanguard Style bonus stacks with itself



          About the only way this would be "too strong" is if you can exploit a way to do something useful with a huge reflex save bonus, and trigger multiple reflex saves for a cheap enough cost that the useful thing is strong.



          If your ally is taking 10 reflex saves while adjacent to you and after the 5th one they auto-succeed, that wouldn't be a worry to me. It is a pretty crazy bonus, but it is to a reactive scenario that isn't what you call common.



          I'm unaware of a way you can turn a huge reflex save bonus into being invulnerable in general, or even better use a huge reflex save bonus into a tool to defeat a foe. I'm also unaware of a cheap way to induce 10 or so reflex saves at-will (so as to always have the bonus up).






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            $begingroup$
            (Although it's for Pathfinder's antecedent D&D 3.5 — but uses similar Pathfinder language — , this question and its answer addresses the typing and stackability (stackiness? stackosity?) of multiple successful aid another attempts.)
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            – Hey I Can Chan
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            I realize my remark about this situation being strong drew more attention than I expected. I mentioned it because with the help of just some traits or items, some could easily raise the bonus to a cumulative +4 or more. Nonetheless, this remains specific to reflex saves and, fortunately, I'm also unaware at how it could be exploited to do something else.
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            – Rophe
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            +4? You are thinking low. I can reach +8 before level 10, per AoO.
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            – ShadowKras
            yesterday






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            $begingroup$
            For the record, using this interpretion ("Vanguard Style is an Aid Another action"), wouldn't it also mean that the attacker must be within the Vanguard Style character's threatened area (as described under Aid Another) in order to qualify for the Aid Another action? So it would only grant reflex save bonus against point-blank fireballs?
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            – ShadowKras
            yesterday










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            @ShadowKras In this case, it should be comparable to the Bodyguard feat : depending on where you are looking for, it's right, or not...
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            – Rophe
            yesterday













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          $begingroup$

          Multiple bonuses from the same source without a type do not stack, unless they specifically say otherwise.



          In this case, Vanguard Style states it is an Aid Another action. The Aid Another action explicitly states




          Multiple characters can aid the same friend, and similar bonuses stack.




          where is explicitly states that the stacking rules are modified here.



          The intention of this sentence seems to be that "each aiding character counts as a different source for stacking purposes", but it doesn't quite state it. Instead, it explicitly states that similar bonuses stack without restricting it to similar bonuses from multiple different characters only.



          Usually this doesn't matter, as a single character finds it difficult to aid another multiple times on the same action of their friend. However, this use of aid another extends the duration of the bonus, hence the quirk.



          I'd argue that this is a typo. But if you want to follow the rules as written,



          The Vanguard Style bonus stacks with itself



          About the only way this would be "too strong" is if you can exploit a way to do something useful with a huge reflex save bonus, and trigger multiple reflex saves for a cheap enough cost that the useful thing is strong.



          If your ally is taking 10 reflex saves while adjacent to you and after the 5th one they auto-succeed, that wouldn't be a worry to me. It is a pretty crazy bonus, but it is to a reactive scenario that isn't what you call common.



          I'm unaware of a way you can turn a huge reflex save bonus into being invulnerable in general, or even better use a huge reflex save bonus into a tool to defeat a foe. I'm also unaware of a cheap way to induce 10 or so reflex saves at-will (so as to always have the bonus up).






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          Multiple bonuses from the same source without a type do not stack, unless they specifically say otherwise.



          In this case, Vanguard Style states it is an Aid Another action. The Aid Another action explicitly states




          Multiple characters can aid the same friend, and similar bonuses stack.




          where is explicitly states that the stacking rules are modified here.



          The intention of this sentence seems to be that "each aiding character counts as a different source for stacking purposes", but it doesn't quite state it. Instead, it explicitly states that similar bonuses stack without restricting it to similar bonuses from multiple different characters only.



          Usually this doesn't matter, as a single character finds it difficult to aid another multiple times on the same action of their friend. However, this use of aid another extends the duration of the bonus, hence the quirk.



          I'd argue that this is a typo. But if you want to follow the rules as written,



          The Vanguard Style bonus stacks with itself



          About the only way this would be "too strong" is if you can exploit a way to do something useful with a huge reflex save bonus, and trigger multiple reflex saves for a cheap enough cost that the useful thing is strong.



          If your ally is taking 10 reflex saves while adjacent to you and after the 5th one they auto-succeed, that wouldn't be a worry to me. It is a pretty crazy bonus, but it is to a reactive scenario that isn't what you call common.



          I'm unaware of a way you can turn a huge reflex save bonus into being invulnerable in general, or even better use a huge reflex save bonus into a tool to defeat a foe. I'm also unaware of a cheap way to induce 10 or so reflex saves at-will (so as to always have the bonus up).







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          • 2




            $begingroup$
            (Although it's for Pathfinder's antecedent D&D 3.5 — but uses similar Pathfinder language — , this question and its answer addresses the typing and stackability (stackiness? stackosity?) of multiple successful aid another attempts.)
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            – Hey I Can Chan
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            I realize my remark about this situation being strong drew more attention than I expected. I mentioned it because with the help of just some traits or items, some could easily raise the bonus to a cumulative +4 or more. Nonetheless, this remains specific to reflex saves and, fortunately, I'm also unaware at how it could be exploited to do something else.
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            +4? You are thinking low. I can reach +8 before level 10, per AoO.
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            $begingroup$
            For the record, using this interpretion ("Vanguard Style is an Aid Another action"), wouldn't it also mean that the attacker must be within the Vanguard Style character's threatened area (as described under Aid Another) in order to qualify for the Aid Another action? So it would only grant reflex save bonus against point-blank fireballs?
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            yesterday










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            @ShadowKras In this case, it should be comparable to the Bodyguard feat : depending on where you are looking for, it's right, or not...
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            – Rophe
            yesterday












          • 2




            $begingroup$
            (Although it's for Pathfinder's antecedent D&D 3.5 — but uses similar Pathfinder language — , this question and its answer addresses the typing and stackability (stackiness? stackosity?) of multiple successful aid another attempts.)
            $endgroup$
            – Hey I Can Chan
            yesterday










          • $begingroup$
            I realize my remark about this situation being strong drew more attention than I expected. I mentioned it because with the help of just some traits or items, some could easily raise the bonus to a cumulative +4 or more. Nonetheless, this remains specific to reflex saves and, fortunately, I'm also unaware at how it could be exploited to do something else.
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            +4? You are thinking low. I can reach +8 before level 10, per AoO.
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            yesterday






          • 1




            $begingroup$
            For the record, using this interpretion ("Vanguard Style is an Aid Another action"), wouldn't it also mean that the attacker must be within the Vanguard Style character's threatened area (as described under Aid Another) in order to qualify for the Aid Another action? So it would only grant reflex save bonus against point-blank fireballs?
            $endgroup$
            – ShadowKras
            yesterday










          • $begingroup$
            @ShadowKras In this case, it should be comparable to the Bodyguard feat : depending on where you are looking for, it's right, or not...
            $endgroup$
            – Rophe
            yesterday







          2




          2




          $begingroup$
          (Although it's for Pathfinder's antecedent D&D 3.5 — but uses similar Pathfinder language — , this question and its answer addresses the typing and stackability (stackiness? stackosity?) of multiple successful aid another attempts.)
          $endgroup$
          – Hey I Can Chan
          yesterday




          $begingroup$
          (Although it's for Pathfinder's antecedent D&D 3.5 — but uses similar Pathfinder language — , this question and its answer addresses the typing and stackability (stackiness? stackosity?) of multiple successful aid another attempts.)
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          – Hey I Can Chan
          yesterday












          $begingroup$
          I realize my remark about this situation being strong drew more attention than I expected. I mentioned it because with the help of just some traits or items, some could easily raise the bonus to a cumulative +4 or more. Nonetheless, this remains specific to reflex saves and, fortunately, I'm also unaware at how it could be exploited to do something else.
          $endgroup$
          – Rophe
          yesterday




          $begingroup$
          I realize my remark about this situation being strong drew more attention than I expected. I mentioned it because with the help of just some traits or items, some could easily raise the bonus to a cumulative +4 or more. Nonetheless, this remains specific to reflex saves and, fortunately, I'm also unaware at how it could be exploited to do something else.
          $endgroup$
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          yesterday












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          +4? You are thinking low. I can reach +8 before level 10, per AoO.
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          – ShadowKras
          yesterday




          $begingroup$
          +4? You are thinking low. I can reach +8 before level 10, per AoO.
          $endgroup$
          – ShadowKras
          yesterday




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          1




          $begingroup$
          For the record, using this interpretion ("Vanguard Style is an Aid Another action"), wouldn't it also mean that the attacker must be within the Vanguard Style character's threatened area (as described under Aid Another) in order to qualify for the Aid Another action? So it would only grant reflex save bonus against point-blank fireballs?
          $endgroup$
          – ShadowKras
          yesterday




          $begingroup$
          For the record, using this interpretion ("Vanguard Style is an Aid Another action"), wouldn't it also mean that the attacker must be within the Vanguard Style character's threatened area (as described under Aid Another) in order to qualify for the Aid Another action? So it would only grant reflex save bonus against point-blank fireballs?
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          @ShadowKras In this case, it should be comparable to the Bodyguard feat : depending on where you are looking for, it's right, or not...
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          @ShadowKras In this case, it should be comparable to the Bodyguard feat : depending on where you are looking for, it's right, or not...
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