Crane style, the madu, and fighting defensively


Rules Questions

The Exchange

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if you are proficient in the madu and using crane style do you take any negatives for fighting defensively. its a heavy feat investment
dodge, improved unarmed strike and proficient the madu.
crane style says you take a -2 instead of a -4 and the madu says the same here are there links
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/crane-style-combat-style
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment---final/armor/madu

i dont want to know what you would allow or what your dm allows this is possibly for pfs play so i just need to know if the penalty reductions are cumulative or not. im reading it as they would both work but i could just be hopeful.


Both of them bring the penalty down from -4 to -2 so they don't stack.
If they read as reducing the penalty by 2 that would be different.

Examples: We will assume the cheeseburger is 1 dollar.

1. You have 2 coupons that each will allow you to buy one cheeseburger for 50 cents. That does not get you a free cheeseburger.

2. You have two coupons that take 50 cents off the price of a cheeseburger. These would stack because they are not setting a price, but taking 50 off of the total price no matter what that price is.

The Exchange

just wish i had the books as i have found that the srd seems to shorten some and i have found a few to combine the benefit in with the description.
but that is too bad darn.

Dark Archive

They don't stack; I've got the PDFs in front of me and they both reduce the value to -2, rather than reducing the penalty by 2.

The Exchange

thanks mergy and wraith i am still trying to decide what all pdfs i need to buy for pfs play so i dont have the fire one yet.

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