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When he issues a glorious challenge, the cavalier takes a –2 penalty to AC for the duration of the glorious challenge (this penalty stacks with the usual –2 AC penalty against opponents other than the target of the cavalier's challenge).
The cavalier gains a morale bonus on melee damage rolls against the target of his glorious challenge equal to 2 × the number of consecutive glorious challenges he has issued thus far. As long as he continues to defeat targets of his glorious challenges and there are more opponents in range, the cavalier can continue to issue glorious challenges indefinitely, with the penalty to AC and the bonus on damage rolls increasing with each subsequent foe. For example, a 5th-level cavalier that has just issued his third glorious challenge after defeating the original target of his challenge takes a –6 penalty to AC (–8 against creatures other than the target of his glorious challenge) and gains a +11 bonus on melee damage rolls (a +5 bonus from his base challenge ability plus a +6 morale bonus for three consecutive glorious challenges).
Can my AC be reduced to 0 or lower? Assuming it can't, can I continue to gain bonuses to damage rolls if the AC is as low as it can get?
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Your AC continues to be reduced with no minimum cap.
So, let's say opponent is really slinging lightweight summoned monsters at me and I keep my Glorious Challenges going 20 times. My AC is -40 off of whatever my armor is (probably not that high..). Would be amazing with THAC0, but this is pathfinder. Does the negative AC become a bonus to my opponent's rolls to hit?
Not really? Kind of though. Let's say you have -2 AC and your opponent has a -4 to hit. He rolls a 2, he hits. If you had a -1 AC, he'd miss. I don't see this EVER happening.
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Not really? Kind of though. Let's say you have -2 AC and your opponent has a -4 to hit. He rolls a 2, he hits. If you had a -1 AC, he'd miss. I don't see this EVER happening.
Would depend on the DM. A night raid encounter is a decent scenario where it would happen, as my PC would likely be not wearing his armor (don't sleep in full plate). So stock AC 10, two handed weapon, and a bunch of low level goblins/kobolds. Killing 1 per round doesn't seem that unrealistic, especially if this is just a random encounter.
Suppose in a power gaming party, could actually have a friendly summoner send minions my way to boost my damage output high enough. DM might not allow this.
Also, a melee should always have armor to sleep in. Even if it's just leather or a chain shirt.