feat Improved Feint

Improved Feint (General)

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Prerequisites: Intelligence 13, Combat Expertise.
Benefit: You can make a Bluff check to feint in combat as a move action.
Normal: Feinting in combat is a standard action.

A fighter may select Improved Feint as one of his fighter bonus feats.

What Improved Feint Changes

Improved Feint changes feinting in combat from a standard action to a move action. The feat does not make the Bluff check automatically succeed; it makes the attempt cheaper in the action economy, allowing the character to feint and still use a standard action in the same turn.

Improved Feint Example

A character uses a move action to make the Bluff check for a feint. If the feint succeeds, the character still has a standard action available for an attack or another legal action. Without Improved Feint, the feint itself would normally consume the standard action.

Who Benefits Most

Characters who use feints repeatedly rather than only occasionally.
Melee builds that benefit from creating openings before an attack.
Characters already meeting the Intelligence 13 and Combat Expertise prerequisites.

See the Feats index for other tactical combat options.