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Two-Weapon Defense and Combat Expertise
Limper:
--- Quote from: Berger King ---I mean does the bonus go up to +2 when using combat expertise. I guess the question is: for the purposes of this feat, is combat expertise the same as fighting defensively/total defense?
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Sobek has the right of it.
Dacke:
Not by the RAW. There are a couple of feats that let you substitute "Expertise for 2 or more" for fighting defensively (at least two in Races of Eberron), but Two-weapon fighting isn't one of them.
kryyst:
I was always under the impression that fighting Defensively is not stackable with Combat Expertise becasue of the descriptive text in Combat Expertise. I don't have it with me but it's something like.
Characters without combat expertise may fight defensively subtracting -4 from their to hit and adding 2 to their AC. Characters with Combat Expertise get a 1 for 1 trade.
Sobek:
--- Quote from: kryyst ---I was always under the impression that fighting Defensively is not stackable with Combat Expertise becasue of the descriptive text in Combat Expertise. I don't have it with me but it's something like.
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This was specifically FAQed or errattaed at some point. The official word is, unambiguously, "they stack".
Regardless, I'd house-rule it to stack because I want the Combat Expertise feat to be of value, even to someone with 5 ranks of Tumble.
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