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It stated that you can use Bodyguard to use aid ally on your ally's AC bonus when they are attacked. Normally though, you need to be adjacent to use a standard action on an enemy that your ally will attack or that will attack your ally.
For the purpose of using aid other through the bodyguard feat, do you have to be adjacent to both your ally AND the enemy who you will give an AC bonus against, or just your ally?
From PFSRD;
Bodyguard (Combat)
Your swift strikes ward off enemies attacking nearby allies.
Prerequisite: Combat reflexes.
Benefit: 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. You may not use the aid another action to improve your ally’s attack roll with this attack.
Normal: Aid another is a standard action.
"Benefit: When an adjacent ally is attacked..." So just next to your ally, think of it as trying to parry the attack that is coming into the square where your ally is standing (That does fall down with a Large Ally, but that is what a GM is for.)
I guess that is as clear as it is going to get. In that case, does that mean you could use this for ranged attacks as well?
Aid Another is limited to melee attacks, so this feat is as well, given the wording of "attempt the aid another action to improve your ally’s AC"
I guess that is as clear as it is going to get. In that case, does that mean you could use this for ranged attacks as well?
Are you meaning you making the ranged attack or to boost ac against a ranged attack?
To boost an adjacent ally's AC if they are attacked by a range attack, or really any attack.
And if we are going back to the wording of the standard Aid Another action, than it specifically says
"If you're in position to make a melee attack on an opponent that is engaging a friend in melee combat, you can attempt to aid your friend as a standard action. You make an attack roll against AC 10."
It is kinda of weird to be picking and choosing parts of the original action to adhere to with the interpretation of the body guard feat.
What is the benefit of Body Guard exactly? Is it allowing you to go straight to the "Aid and benefit after an attack roll of 10", or is it simply letting you use an attack of opportunity to qualify for the setup involving being able to attack the opponent IN ADDITION to having to be adjacent to the ally?
In other words, what is exactly constitutes the Aid Another Action?
To boost an adjacent ally's AC if they are attacked by a range attack, or really any attack.
by the reading you dont have to be adjacent to the attacker just the ally. So yeah i can see you shoving or what not your buddy to help him dodge an arrow.