elude blows

[messy]

dm's: would you allow elude blows (from monte cook's book of experimental might) in your game?

elude blows allows a character to subtract a number from their damage rolls and add the same number to their armor class. presumably this would function mechanically like combat expertise and power attack (start at -1/+1 and increase at every 4 points of base attack bonus).

[rainzax]

what is the ratio? -2 damage per +1 AC?

edit: Oh I see it's one-to-one. I think 2-to-1 would be more fair. really good feat for a monk using Stunning Fist, eh?

[blahpers]

I'd have to see the entirety of the feat text.

[Larkspire]

Nope,not in my games. It's much easier to pump damage than to pump AC.
C.Expertise risks ALL of the damage by increasing miss chance.
I do think combat expertise should scale like power attack though -1 to hit /+2 to ac per 4 BA.
Elude blows is very abuse-able , Shield of swings gives +4 AC and it takes half your damage...not just a few points.