Kobold Gunslinger Favored class bonus


Rules Questions


So Gunslinger has a feature called nimble, which every few levels you get an additional +1 Dodge AC

Kobold Gunslinger gets a FCB of +1/4 to the AC bonus of Nimble

But Nimble says it caps out a +5 at level 20 normally.

Does this cap apply to the kobold fcb as well, meaning that its basically useless after a few levels or does the kobold FCB apply after the cap allowing it to increase?


Quote="NIMBLE (EX)"]Starting at 2nd level, a gunslinger gains a +1 dodge bonus to AC while wearing light or no armor. Anything that causes the gunslinger to lose her Dexterity bonus to AC also causes the gunslinger to lose this dodge bonus. This bonus increases by +1 for every four levels beyond 2nd level (to a maximum of +5 at 20th level).

So first of all, Nimble maxes out at 18th level, so they already got one bit wrong.

Kobold FCB wrote:
Add +¼ to the dodge bonus to AC granted by the nimble class feature (maximum +4).

It doesn't say explicitly, but I'd let it stack. The language used saying "max +5 at 20th level" seems to be more explanatory text than restrictive text, and Dodge bonuses usually stack.

Also if someone wants to spend 16 levels of FCB into something it feels a bit mean to kake it worthless.


Starting at 2nd level, a gunslinger gains a +1 dodge bonus to AC while wearing light or no armor. Anything that causes the gunslinger to lose her Dexterity bonus to AC also causes the gunslinger to lose this dodge bonus. This bonus increases by +1 for every four levels beyond 2nd level (to a maximum of +5 at 20th level).

So first of all, Nimble maxes out at 18th level, so they already got one bit wrong.

Kobold FCB wrote:
Add +¼ to the dodge bonus to AC granted by the nimble class feature (maximum +4).

It doesn't say explicitly, but I'd let it stack. The language used saying "max +5 at 20th level" seems to be more explanatory text than restrictive text, and Dodge bonuses usually stack.

Also if someone wants to spend 16 levels of FCB into something it feels a bit mean to make it worthless.

Just missed the 1 hour window to edit my post, so here it is edited.

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