Feats of Agility (PFRPG) PDF

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Feats of Agility includes ten new feats focused on acrobatics, dodging, and speed: Acrobatic Dodge, Defensive Mobility, Dodging Dash, Duck and Cover, Evade Harm, Graceful Fall, Live to Fight Another Day, Mobile Assault, Opportune Grappler, and Quick Leap.

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3 stars - vast gulf between cool and...welll, not so cool

3/5

All right, you know the drill by now - 3 ages, 1 page front cover, 1 page SRD, 1 page content, so let's check out these feats!

-Acrobatic Dodge: When fighting defensively, use your acrobatics skill-check as substitute AC/touch AC. Not even an action while in total defense. Interesting feat and per se a good idea - were it not for the insane amount of ways with which you can magically boost said skill-check. Without them, the feat would be strong, but not that powerful. With them, I consider it broken as all hell, as it essentially allows you to ignore flat out one attack per round. Needs a revision.

-Defensive Mobility: Gain the mobility-AC-bonus to acrobatics-checks to move through threatened squares and your dodge bonus against AoOs incurred by moving through threatened squares. Nice feat that makes both mobility and dodge suck less.

-Dodging Dash: Double any dodge-bonuses when using the withdraw action. Nice!

-Duck and Cover; When making a ref-saves, you can opt to fall prone and roll twice, taking the better result. You must announce the use of the feat beforehand. Cool idea, per se cool execution...BUT. There are ways to negate the prone condition rather easily, making this feat a no-brainer. It needs a caveat like: "Remain prone and incur a -4 penalty on ref-saves in the following round".

-Evade Harm: 1/day, you can make a ref-save vs. damage dealt to you by an attack. On a successful save, you receive only half damage. If you have improved evasion, it works with the feat. Extremely cool great and thanks to the 1/day restriction a balanced and neat choice.

-Graceful Fall: Use acrobatics to negate up to your slow fall distance in damage when falling.

-Live to Fight Another Day: When an opponent attacks you with a melee or natural attack and misses, you gain +10 ft. movement for one round. EDIT: I missed that the bonus is a morale-bonus, making the feat work better. Mea culpa.

-Mobile Assault: Add your mobility and dodge-bonuses to AC to damage after using acrobatics to move through a threatened square. Cool feat, nice execution, nothing to complain!

-Opportune Grappler: When grappling someone and dealing unarmed/light weapon damage, you may delay said attack to automatically get an AoO when the victim tries to attack, cast a spell etc. Now here's the trick: The attack automatically threatens a critical hit (though to special crit-only abilities). Very cool knife-to-the-throat-imagery and one of the better ways to execute the move I've seen.

-Quick Leap: When moving at least 10 ft. to perform a running jump, the first 10 ft. of the jump do not count for your movement. Nice!

Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are very good, I didn't notice any significant glitches. Layout adheres to Abandoned Arts' 2-column no-frills standard and the pdf has no bookmarks, but needs none at this length. Oh boy. On the one hand, some of the feats herein are vey useful and finally make dodge and mobility suck less and in fact offer some neat options to use them. On the other hand, some of the feats in here are flat-out broken and need a serious revision. I can't recall a product by Abandoned Arts where the gulf between stellar and bad feats was as evident as herein. Usually, I'd smack this pdf down to 2 or 1 stars for the broken feats, but those that do work, work exceedingly nice. Even with the low price, though, you should be aware of the problems I mentioned. If you don't mind, this pdf might be a 3-star file. If you do, however, this is not for you and probably 1 star... In the end, I'll settle for a final verdict of 3 stars.

Endzeitgeist out.


An RPG Resource Review

4/5

This is a good resource for those characters who want to make good use of their agility, especially in combat. In a single succinct page, there are no less than ten feats on the theme of agility. Interestingly, the prerequisites range from a good Dex to Acrobatics skill, Dodge or even a good Reflex save; likewise the feats themselves highlight different aspects of agility use, enabling you to pick appropriate ones depending on your combat style.

If you have an eye to cinematic moves, try Acrobatic Dodge which lets you get out of the way of an attack in style. Several other feats on offer also concentrate on getting yourself out of harm's way (always a good idea, particulary as characters built on agility can be lacking in the tank-like qualities of more ponderous comrades) - so there's Evade Harm and Live To Fight Another Day, which also help keep you out of trouble in different ways.

For spectactular moves in a combat situation, you could take Dodging Dash, Graceful Fall or Quick Leap (the last two applying to any time you're leaping around, there need not be a brawl in progress), whilst Defensive Mobility has an interesting two-pronged approach, adding the bonus from the Mobilty feat (which is a prerequisite) to Acrobatics skill checks when dodging through a fight, but also adding it to your Armour Class if you fail and attract an attack of opportunity!

OK, enough of keeping out of harm's way, when you need to stand tall and mix it with the opposition you may still use your agility if you have taken Mobile Assault - where you combine your acrobatics with melee combat - or Opportune Grappler if you prefer unarmed combat.

This collection provides quite a few ways in which the light, fast-moving characters can enhance their combat effectiveness - and look good whilst doing so. A thoughtful combination could be used to build an entire fighting style, or just one or two taken to hone specific abilities.


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Thanks, Liz!

Daron Woodson
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Thanks for your excellent review, Megan.

Daron Woodson
Abandoned Arts


And reviewed here, on DTRPG and sent to GMS magazine. Cheers!

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Thanks for the review, Endzeitgeist. One quick note about your observations, though.

While I expected Acrobatic Dodge to be about as controversial as the albeit-easier-to-qualify-for Crane Wing feat, Live to Fight Another Day does not work as you indicate. The speed bonus is typed (it's a morale bonus), which means that 10 feet is the most you'll ever get out of it. No stacking attacks for an extra 30+ feet of movement allowed!

Also, Duck and Cover puts you on the floor for at least as long as it takes for your turn to come around, even if you can stand up as an immediate action. That's because it takes an immediate action to use Duck and Cover, so you're down until you get your swift/immediate action back.

I don't know if these affect your score, but I thought I'd point them out.

And if I didn't say so earlier: welcome back! : )

Daron Woodson
Abandoned Arts


Adjusted my review to account for the error on my part. Yeah, Duck and Cover's critique is also about economy of action, not just the standing up, so for me, I'd add such a caveat.

Oh, and Crane Style is broken as hell... -.-

Cheers and thanks!

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Thanks, End!

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