Re: OOC Thread #10: Commandments
Wow Pisca, that sounds like a real adventure! I hope you didn't have trouble with gobbies.
But we had discussed Escape Route as our teamwork feat, I think we settled on it as being the most generally useful. There were a couple others that we looked at too if we want to reconsider our options:
Lookout:
Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has this feat, you may act in the surprise round as long as your ally would normally be able to act in the surprise round. If you would normally be denied the ability to act in the surprise round, your initiative is equal to your initiative roll or the roll of your ally –1, whichever is lower. If both you and your ally would be able to act in the surprise round without the aid of this feat, you may take both a standard and a move action (or a full-round action) during the surprise round.
Let's more of us act in the surprise round. If one of us isn't surprised, none of us are.
Outflank:
Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat are flanking the same creature, your flanking bonus on attack rolls increases to +4. In addition, whenever you score a critical hit against the flanked creature, it provokes an attack of opportunity from your ally.
This would mostly benefit Pisca and Kellan, when Pisca flanks for him Kellan gets +4 to hit instead of +2. And the chance for free attacks! The rest of teh party would probably select something else if Pisca and Kellan took this one.
Coordinated Defense:
Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has this feat, you receive a +2 competence bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense. This bonus increases to +4 if the creature attempting the maneuver is larger than both you and your ally.
This is just pure defense for us, though I'll admit it probably helps me more than anyone else.
Escape Route:
An ally who also has this feat provokes no attacks of opportunity for moving through squares adjacent to you or within your space.
But this one is generally very useful. Less AoOs for movement helps us re-position in combat. I know it's come come up with me quite a lot!