Halfling Opportunist, Excellent Aid, and Exploitative Manuever

[Jelloarm]

Do they stack?

I picked up Halflings of Golarion and loved the flavor of this class, but these two class features confuse me.

Excellent aid gives the halfling opportunist +1 to the bonus whenever they benefit from the aid another action. Exploitative Maneuver says:

Quote:

"A halfling opportunist can use an enemy's actions in combat for her own gain, as if the opponent were using aid another to assist the opportunist, giving her a bonus on her next skill check, attack roll, or to AC against the next attack."

So does the halfling get the normal +2 to be aided by her enemy's actions, as the example at the end of Exploitative Maneuver assumes? Or does the bonus (and the penalty attached to the successful maneuver) increase as well?

[Jelloarm]

Bump - I want to run this character at PFS tomorrow so I would like to know!

[The black raven]

Jelloarm wrote:

So does the halfling get the normal +2 to be aided by her enemy's actions, as the example at the end of Exploitative Maneuver assumes? Or does the bonus (and the penalty attached to the successful maneuver) increase as well?

I believe that the second one is the correct answer (and that the example wrongly uses the usual +2 bonus of the Aid another action, not taking into account that it is at least a +3 because Excellent aid +1 is available from the first level in Opportunist).

Exploitive maneuver allows you to get an "aid another" bonus from an enemy (and give him a penalty of the same amount on his action roll).

Excellent aid increases the bonus you get from "aid another" and nothing says that you do not get to use this increased bonus with Exploitive maneuver.

[Hayato Ken]

I would say the same. Actually im planning to use this prestige class with my halflin ninja. The oakling group monk took something that lets him aid another as swift or immediate or whatever action and has a natural reach of 10 already, with gaseous form from the alchemist its going to 20, so there will be some nice uses.

[The black raven]

I would love to know how it played for your Opportunist in PFS play. What were the great moments and what was disappointing, and also whether there were any rules points that needed the GM to make a judgement and what the judgement was.