so:
Disruptive (Combat)
Your training makes it difficult for enemy spellcasters to safely cast spells near you.
Prerequisites: 6th-level fighter.
Benefit: The DC to cast spells defensively increases by +4 for all enemies that are within your threatened area. This increase to casting spells defensively only applies if you are aware of the enemy's location and are capable of taking an attack of opportunity. If you can only take one attack of opportunity per round and have already used that attack, this increase does not apply.
I am working on a team of of mage-killers (Inquisitor, Barbarian, Bard (Arcane Duelist), and probably a Monk of some flavor) and realize that there is every chance that a caster might be pinched between two (or more) characters with Disruptive.
Straight gut level reading feels like multiple instances of the feat would stack, but since the wording of the Foil Casting ability of the Spellbreaker Inquisitor archetype specifically calls out that it stacks with Disruptive, I find myself second guessing my gut.
Barbarian in the Superstition tree of Rage powers gets Disruptive, as does the Arcane Duelist Bard, and Disruptive is the bonus feat from the Spellkiller Inquisition. Plus a Monk Martial artist qualifies for feats as if a Fighter of his level (and has the saves to worry a spellcaster).
as the increase in the DC is not typed, I can only presume that it stacks, and with Spellbreaker, the whole thing could be just what a world filled with power hunger spellcasters needs to keep them in line (or put them in the dirt)
Martial Arts Master (Ex): At 4th level, a martial artist may use his monk level to qualify for feats with a fighter level prerequisite when those feats are applied to unarmed strikes or weapons with the monk special quality. This ability replaces slow fall.
Disruptive doesn't apply directly to a weapon like Weapon Focus or Weapon Specialization so I don't think that a Monk can choose the feat.
None of this answers the question. Generally speaking penalties are untyped and do stack.
On a side note, make the monk a tetori and have him run down any spellcaster that tries to get out of range of the other guys.
I'd say it stacks, the mage will have a hard time surrounded by a team of mage-hunters, swift spells and the like are still an option it seems fine by me.
None of this answers the question. Generally speaking penalties are untyped and do stack.
But, penalties from the same source generally do not stack. e.g. multiple Rays of Enfeeblement.
Doesn't matter what penalties do, this isn't a penalty.
It is an untyped bonus to the DC. Stacks.
But, penalties from the same source generally do not stack. e.g. multiple Rays of Enfeeblement.None of this answers the question. Generally speaking penalties are untyped and do stack.
Ray of Enfeeblement is one of those few instances that specifically states that it doesn't stack with itself. Any penalty that doesn't state that does stack with itself. Although even that point is moot, because Kain Darkwind is spot on.
Good catch. Stacks. Feel free to rule it otherwise in your game, but RAW is RAW and is what was asked.
Doesn't matter what penalties do, this isn't a penalty.
It is an untyped bonus to the DC. Stacks.
Bonuses without a type do always stack, unless they're from the same source.