Does Dueling Cloak Adept Trait stack?


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Here's the trait:

Quote:

Dueling Cloak Adept

Category Basic (Combat)
You are trained in using your cloak to disguise your body and deceive your enemies. While wearing a cloak and using an Aldori dueling sword, you gain a +2 trait bonus on Bluff checks made to feint. Additionally, every time you successfully feint while wearing a cloak, you gain a +1 dodge bonus to your Armor Class until your next turn.

What if I make multiple feints in a turn? Will the bonuses stack with the other? My friend argues that all those bonuses come from the same trait, so they do not stack. However, the trait states "every time". so I believe those bonuses come from different actions and thus can stuck.


Dodge bonuses always stack. And the trait does specify "every time".

If you feint five times in a round you'd get a +5 bonus.


dodge bonus of different abilities stack. not of the same source.
( With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works. The same principle applies to penalties- a character taking two or more penalties of the same type applies only the worst one, although most penalties have no type and thus always stack. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.)

2 haste won't stack dodge bonus

*edit*
gona retract what i posted earlier. this specific trait state "every time you do x. you get y...until next turn" if it was only once it would have said. when you do x you get y until next turn.


zza ni wrote:

dodge bonus of different abilities stack. not of the same source.

( With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works. The same principle applies to penalties- a character taking two or more penalties of the same type applies only the worst one, although most penalties have no type and thus always stack. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.)

Did you even read what you quoted? The part that you bolded only applies to "Bonuses without a type".

There is no general rule regarding same source. The dodge bonuses from the trait do stack.

zza ni wrote:
is like having haste cast on by more then one caster. you won't get more then one +1 dodge to ac.

That's because of a completely different rule - spells have additional stacking rules: "Spells that provide bonuses or penalties on attack rolls, damage rolls, saving throws, and other attributes usually do not stack with themselves." CRB pg. 208

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