I am unsure of how this stacks if it even does.
I'm under the impression that anytime you get a dodge bonus to AC you get the same bonus to your cmd.
Miscellaneous Modifiers
A creature can also add any circumstance, deflection, dodge, insight, luck, morale, profane, and sacred bonuses to AC to its CMD. Any penalties to a creature's AC also apply to its CMD. A flat-footed creature does not add its Dexterity bonus to its CMD.
If that is correct then are these feats giving you additional bonuses to cmd?
Base feat:
Cautious Fighter (Combat, Halfling)
You care more about survival than victory.
Prerequisites: Halfling.
Benefit: When fighting defensively or using total defense, your dodge bonus to AC increases by 2.
I would assume that this would apply as normal to cmd. ie: Lets say I have 3 ranks in acrobatics and have cautious fighter and going full defence I should have a +8 to my AC and cmd.
Blundering Defense (Combat, Halfling)
Your feverish and sometimes comical defensive techniques offer enough distraction to aid allies.
Prerequisites: Cautious Fighter, halfling.
Benefit: Whenever you fight defensively or use the total defense action, allies gain a luck bonus to AC and CMD equal to 1/2 the dodge bonus you gain from the action you are taking. Allies only gain this bonus while they are adjacent to you.
Okay this makes sense here as the bonus your allies are getting is the same to AC and CMD.
Uncanny Defense (Combat, Halfling)
Your instinct for self-preservation gives you many advantages.
Prerequisites: Cautious Fighter, base attack bonus +3, halfling.
Benefit: While fighting defensively or taking the total defense action, you gain a bonus on your Reflex saving throws and to your CMD equal to 1/2 of the dodge bonus to AC you gained from taking that action.
So is the bonus to cmd in addition to the whole normal bonus to cmd from fighting defensively or taking the total defence action?
ie:(Same example as above) Lets say I have 3 ranks in acrobatics and have cautious fighter and going full defence I should have a +8 to my AC and cmd.
However, with uncanny defence it seems it's either +12 or +4 to cmd total.
Any ideas?
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uncanny defense is giving an untyped bonus to CMD, which will stack with the dodge bonus you're getting.
So +12 total to cmd?
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uncanny defense is giving an untyped bonus to CMD, which will stack with the dodge bonus you're getting.
Even if it was a dodge bonus, dodge bonuses stack.
right, I was being explicit since that was the question being asked.
Actually I'm aware dodge bonuses stack I just felt that maybe there was something not intended in the feat the way it was worded. I wanted a second opinion.
Regardless, many thanks! :)