Barbarian Dodge


Rules Questions


So, activating multiple times the Rolling Dodge or Guarded Stance rage power makes these Dodge Bonuses stackable?
For Example, on my turn my 12 level raging barbarian spends a move action to gain a +3 dodge bonus against ranged attacks that lasts for (Constitution modifier)*rounds, then I take another move action to re-activate Rolling Dodge... Would I have +6 dodge bonus to CA?

Thanks in advance, pls post quotes from rules if you can...

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PRD wrote:
Dodge Bonuses: Dodge bonuses represent actively avoiding blows. Any situation that denies you your Dexterity bonus also denies you dodge bonuses. (Wearing armor, however, does not limit these bonuses the way it limits a Dexterity bonus to AC.) Unlike most sorts of bonuses, dodge bonuses stack with each other.

You sir, are lazy!

EDIT: Don't forget staggering drunk


Same source, they don't stack.

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Ardenup wrote:
Same source, they don't stack.

I wouldn't rule that way, 2 different named abilities and thus different sources. A character can not stack the same ability though. Maybe not RAI...


Sorry but english is not my mother language :) I've posted the same link in my post and this entitled me to stack them, but our GM said that same source bonuses don't stack... Is there a reference on the book? I can't find it, the only one I found was the one I've posted

edit: @Ardenup, do you have a page reference for this?
@Thomas LeBlanc, yeah rolling dodge and guarded stance stacks but two guarded stances or two rolling dodges?

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45ur4 wrote:
Is there a reference on the book? I can't find it, the only one I found was the one I've quoted

Look in the Core Rulebook Combat section. Combat Statistics -> Armor Class -> Other Modifiers -> Dodge Bonuses

But if your GM has a house rule that says different, he is the boss.

EDIT: No, you can not stack two uses of the same ability. Same name = same source. Can not stack the same source. I misinterpreted your original question.


Rolling Dodge activated again just extends how long it's effects last. You can't stack a dodge bonus from the same source.

Same applies from Guarded Stance.

Dodge bonuses from multiple sources stack. For example, Dodge feat + Rolling Dodge stack, because they are two different sources.


Ok thank you all :)
The 'bonuses from same source don't stack' rule, is in the playerbook? Because I can't find it, a part from a mention to it in the section of Spells, about multiple casting...

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