Bodyguard

[Waldham]

Hello, I don't understand the utility of the feat.

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When you Intercept a Strike against your charge, your charge gains resistance to physical damage equal to 1 + half your level for 1 round.

Intercept strike

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You take the damage instead of your ally, though thanks to your armor, you gain resistance to all damage against the triggering damage equal to 2 + your level.

Is it cumulative ?

For all damage, is it only bludgeoning, piercing, slashing attacks ?

Thanks for your future answer.

[YuriP]

The general rule for multiple resistances is that the only higher applies.

The utility of the bodyguard feat is to protect vs multiple attacks or multiple enemies.

For example, if your bodyguarded ally is being attacked and the enemy hit it twice with physical damage using different actions (2 Strike) and you used Intercept Strike to protect it or another enemy tries to damages it too.

The first Strike you will reduce with 2+lvl and you get the rest of the damage.

The second Strike you are unable to use your reaction (because you become out-of-reactions or because you want to save a reaction to protect other ally) but bodyguard will reduce the damage of this second Strike vs your bodyguarded ally by 1+half-lvl.

Now another creature physical damages your bodyguarded ally. Due the duraction of bodyguard effect is 1 round, you ally is still getting 1+half-lvl physical resistance protecting against this ally damage too.

[Mellored]

It's not cumulative.

Bodyguard effectivly makes the resistance last longer. So if they get hit twice (or more), they are still partially protected.

Note the attack doesn't need to be from the same enemy, nor does your ally need to stay next to you (which is a little odd).

If an enemy Commander used Ready, Aim, Fire! against your ally, then you Intercept 1 attack and Bodyguard the rest.

[OrochiFuror]

Mellored wrote:

It's not cumulative.

Bodyguard effectivly makes the resistance last longer. So if they get hit twice (or more), they are still partially protected.

Note the attack doesn't need to be from the same enemy, nor does your ally need to stay next to you (which is a little odd).

If an enemy Commander used Ready, Aim, Fire! against your ally, then you Intercept 1 attack and Bodyguard the rest.

Now I can't get the idea out of my head of a guardian blocking a shot and dying from it then the guarded individual shrugs off a bunch of damage. How do you describe that, using the dead body for cover?

[Ferious Thune]

There were many hide behind the pile of dead bards guardians jokes at the tables I played at.

[Mellored]

OrochiFuror wrote:

Mellored wrote:

It's not cumulative.

Bodyguard effectivly makes the resistance last longer. So if they get hit twice (or more), they are still partially protected.

Note the attack doesn't need to be from the same enemy, nor does your ally need to stay next to you (which is a little odd).

If an enemy Commander used Ready, Aim, Fire! against your ally, then you Intercept 1 attack and Bodyguard the rest.

Now I can't get the idea out of my head of a guardian blocking a shot and dying from it then the guarded individual shrugs off a bunch of damage. How do you describe that, using the dead body for cover?

well the feat IS called "body"guard.

So presumably you can use your body to guard, even when dead.