Distracting Feint: Who can benefit from it?


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Hello everyone,

I'd like a clarification about the Scoundrel Rogue's Distracting Feint feat, i've been searching a lot but i couldn't find an answer.

Distracting Feint wrote:
Your Feints are far more distracting than normal, drawing your foes’ attention and allowing you and your allies to take greater advantage. While a creature is flat-footed by your Feint, it also takes a –2 circumstance penalty to Perception checks and Reflex saves.

Does the bolded part of the text imply that if the enemy is flat-footed only against the Rogue (so on a sucessful feint), it still takes the -2 to Reflex saves even from, say, the Wizard's Fireball?

Or does the Rogue need to get a critcally sucessful Feint to make the foe flat-footed to everyone, in order to allow his allies to take advantage of the feat's benefits?

Thank you in advance.


As long as the target is flat-footed by the Rogue's feint, then it suffers the circumstance penalties. Full stop. The target's Perception and Reflex saves are debuffed against everything.


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Yes. The Rogue only needs regular success on the Feint in order to apply the circumstance penalties to perception and reflex saves. And those conditions apply to the target character in general, not against any particular attack. So everybody gets to benefit to the lower perception and reflex save of that target enemy.

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