feat Combat Reflexes

Combat Reflexes (General)

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Benefit: You may make a number of additional attacks of opportunity equal to your Dexterity bonus.

With this feat, you may also make attacks of opportunity while flat-footed.

Normal: A character without this feat can make only one attack of opportunity per round and can’t make attacks of opportunity while flat-footed.

Special: The Combat Reflexes feat does not allow a rogue to use her opportunist ability more than once per round.

A fighter may select Combat Reflexes as one of his fighter bonus feats.

A monk may select Combat Reflexes as a bonus feat at 2nd level.

How Many Attacks of Opportunity?

Combat Reflexes lets a character make additional attacks of opportunity each round equal to the character’s Dexterity bonus. A character with Dexterity 16 has a +3 Dexterity bonus and can therefore make three additional attacks of opportunity beyond the normal one, provided separate opportunities actually occur.

Flat-Footed Protection

The feat also allows attacks of opportunity while flat-footed. This is separate from the increased number of attacks: even a character who never uses all the extra opportunities can benefit from being able to react before acting normally in combat.

Combat Reflexes Example

Several enemies move through spaces a reach-weapon fighter threatens. Without Combat Reflexes, only one qualifying attack of opportunity can normally be made during the round. With a positive Dexterity bonus and Combat Reflexes, the fighter can respond to multiple qualifying provocations, up to the feat’s limit.

See the Feats index for other melee, reach and fighter options.