Air Barrier & Lightning Stance


Rules Questions


I'm making a lv 20 oracle npc for my game and I noticed something.
I'm wondering if the revelation Air Barrier works together with Lightning Step. You gain 50% concealment from Lightning Step, but Air Barrier doesn't give you concealment, but rather imposes a 50% miss chance on pretty much all ranged attacks. So you would essentially be impossible to hit with ranged attacks by combining these two.

I think it's equally possible that they work together, as it's possible that they don't. What do you guys think?

Edit: Or maybe you would just roll both miss chances separately.


The one thing I am absolutely positive you wouldn't do was add them together.

If they stacked, and it seems like they most likely do, you'd roll each miss chance separately, giving you, essentially, a 75% miss chance.

Sczarni

Concealment grants you 50 % melee miss chance and 50% ranged miss chance. If Lightning Step grants you 50% ranged miss chance only, the 2 wouldn't stack if you ask me, only the highest number would be taken, which in this case both are 50:50 for ranged.

The Exchange

Pathfinder Rulebook Subscriber

Both of these effects are running separately, so that meas you would have to first get past the wind barrier 50% chance and then get past concealment 50% chance. You never add percentages they are multiplied becoming essentially a 75% miss chance for ranged.

ex: .5 * .5 = .25 chance to hit
1 - .25 = .75 chance to miss

if the oracle uses only wind stance with the barrier it would be 50% chance and a 20% chance
.5 * .8 = .4 chance to miss and a .6 chance to hit.

For ease though you should break it down into two separate rolls.

Edited for math

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