Levism84
2016-04-18, 08:39 PM
I was playing around with variant multi-classing a bard [archaeologist archetype] with rogue as the VMC. I know there is some overlap, but I was interested to know if the archaeologist's clever explorer and the rogue's trapfinding stacked?
Since they are named differently and provide mostly different mechanical benefits (and since clever explorer can't be used to qualify for things that require trapfinding) I figured it would be fine to stack them. I just wanted to get a feel from the community if that was RAW okay.
Overall benefits: at 20th level gain a +20 to Disable Device, a +10 to Perception (with an additional +10 to spot traps), gain +4d6 sneak attack to add to rogue feel, gain improved uncanny dodge at 15th (instead of 19th), and the rogue talents you get from archaeologist can be used to improve your VMC rogue sneak attack. However, you don't get anything except additional sneak attack damage at 11th and 19th (because you already get evasion at 6th and improved uncanny dodge at 15th, which sucks).
Since they are named differently and provide mostly different mechanical benefits (and since clever explorer can't be used to qualify for things that require trapfinding) I figured it would be fine to stack them. I just wanted to get a feel from the community if that was RAW okay.
Overall benefits: at 20th level gain a +20 to Disable Device, a +10 to Perception (with an additional +10 to spot traps), gain +4d6 sneak attack to add to rogue feel, gain improved uncanny dodge at 15th (instead of 19th), and the rogue talents you get from archaeologist can be used to improve your VMC rogue sneak attack. However, you don't get anything except additional sneak attack damage at 11th and 19th (because you already get evasion at 6th and improved uncanny dodge at 15th, which sucks).