Pure Fighter Ability: Feint

[meow-mix]

Either a perk or an override feat, whichever.
 
An ability or widget tool that, on a failed concentration check, breaks a target out of various combat styles, like Expertise or Parry mode.  A successful use could also double the Fighter's crit threshold for 1 round.

[Valo56]

Combat styles are easy enough to simply re-activate. It would be a very minor inconvenience to be hit by this. Perhaps have it be a perk which grants fighters an increase to the Taunt skill, and that, with this perk, it also lowers some skills, such as parry, or the enemy's attack bonus.

[Porkolt]

Perhaps this ability could force the target to make a concentration check, and upon failure allow a single attack against the target as though flat-footed as a full round action. This would be pretty similar to what feint does in PnP.

[Valo56]

Since it's for pure fighters, I'd say it should also give them +1d6 sneak attack (only for the attack following a feint, though, not permanent) if it's just making the target flat footed. Or make it another rogue perk.

[Porkolt]

No, that's not the point of a feint. The point of this is to allow a fighter to easily hit high-DEX or expertise-using targets.

[Ebok]

No, that's not the point of a feint. The point of this is to allow a fighter to easily hit high-DEX or expertise-using targets.

Isn't that called taunt?

An ability which debuffs ac temporarily?

[Porkolt]

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Feint

[xXCrystal_Rose]

Feinting as a rogue or duelist was always especially mean in pnp campaigns with the improved feint feat.

[Egon the Monkey]

Fighters don't get taunt, and Feint is specifically designed to mess up things like 30 AC unhittable halflings. Unless it can negate Uncanny Dodge though it's not that great. Plus it does sound complicated to implement.

[lovethesuit]

Taunt is the equivalent of Feint. Taunt is not an actual skill in PnP. Feint uses Bluff, a charisma based skill, and therefore so does Taunt. The design of Feint is to allow you to deal your next attack against the enemy as though they were flat-footed.

The way Taunt works right now is fine the way it is, isn't it? If you insisted on adding the Feint maneuver, it would make Rogues much more overpowered by allowing that sneak attack any time.

[Drakill Tannan]

The suggestion says "Pure Fighter Ability" though.

[lovethesuit]

Well that's just exclusionary.

[Drakill Tannan]

Actually, that's just not reading the suggestion.

[Meddler]

Rogues much more overpowered

LOL?

That would actually be more interesting if it weren't only for pure fighters, since they're already so freaking powerful.

Besides rogues which aren't flanking are going to die really quickly.

[lovethesuit]

There's no legitimate reason to give it only to Pure Fighters, except for the sake of balance, and if you need to make that part of the suggestion then you're well aware it's unbalanced to begin with.