gang up feat and pathfinder society

[elgabalawi]

howdy. i'm looking for official (or officialish) clarification of the gang up feat. over in an advice post that was looking for help getting sneak attacks for a rogue, someone stated that in the gang up feat, you count as your own ally, so it only needs to be you (the rogue) and one other ally adjacent to the same foe to get the flanking bonus.

does anyone know of anything official that makes this clear?

thanks in advance

[Umbranus]

This is difficult because you count as your own ally except when it makes no sense.
I allways interpreted gang up to need two others in addition to you but you could read it the other way, too.

[Grick]

Sean K Reynolds (Designer) wrote:

This is one of those "unless it doesn't make sense" exceptions. If you counted as your own ally for the purpose of Gang Up, then you'd ALWAYS get a flanking bonus if you had at least one other ally threatening your opponent. It would be a no-brainer feat for rogues because it would mean you could always sneak attack from flanking.

The point of Gang Up is to allow *you* to flank someone if your buddies already have it flanked. Like this:

_D_
_MY
_E_

D = dwarf ally
E = elf ally
M = monster
Y = you

Without Gang Up, the dwarf and elf are flanking the monster, but you are not.
With Gang Up, you're counted as flanking the monster because your allies are flanking the monster.

Be sure to read the clarification in the next few posts. Your two allies don't need to be flanking, just threatening.

[Jiggy]

Ooooh, I need to list that one still. Thanks Grick!