Item or Rule?

[kevin_video]

I know I saw it somewhere, but you think I could find it now? No.

A little while back, I was reading somewhere in a book (whether as an item description, something a character was able to do, or a rule for items like that) about how a cloak gave a bonus to a character. I think it was like +2 to concealing a weapon and +1 to AC because you were whipping it around and your attacker couldn't see past it. It might have even been a class's special ability at some point. I wish I remembered, but I would like to know more about this, if anyone's got knowledge on it.

[DaveoftheRave]

It's a tactical feat.

It's in one of the complete books.

[Bozwevial]

Perhaps the Raptor School feat from Complete Warrior? The tactical option in question is basically a chance to feint using your BaB instead of your Bluff skill modifier, so it's not that great. I mean, if you're feinting (cough cough Invisible Blade cough) you probably have ranks in Bluff, and even if you don't, there are better ways to catch someone flat-footed.

[DaveoftheRave]

Combat Cloak Expert from Players Handbook II pg. 93

[kevin_video]

Combat Cloak Expert from Players Handbook II pg. 93

From the looks of it, that seems pretty close to what I thought it was. I'm going to be taking it for my Swashbuckler/Duelist who can't use shields.

[kevin_video]

Sorry for the double post, but I found was I was looking for. While the feat is accurate, the item itself exists as well. It's called a dueling cloak. It's from Dragon 335 p 77, and it gives +1 shield AC, -1 armour penalty, 10% arcane spell failure, and can be used a light weapon to make disarm checks at +2.

[Prime32]

Sorry for the double post, but I found was I was looking for. While the feat is accurate, the item itself exists as well. It's called a dueling cloak. It's from Dragon 335 p 77, and it gives +1 shield AC, -1 armour penalty, 10% arcane spell failure, and can be used a light weapon to make disarm checks at +2.

That is a shield though, and thus your character won't be able to use it.

[Agita]

Gnome Battle Cloak, from Races of Stone, is an exotic 'shield' (i.e. you need a feat to be proficient in it) which gives you a +1 shield bonus, no penalties, and a +4 to disarming opponents with it if you're proficient.

[kevin_video]

That is a shield though, and thus your character won't be able to use it.

Actually it isn't a shield. It says "Grants a Shield bonus to AC, even though it requires Light Armor Proficiency. If you proficient with light armor, you are proficient with a dueling cloak." The downside is that while masterwork versions can be created, they can't be upgraded with shield bonuses. They have to be Craft Wondrous Item bonuses.

[PhaedrusXY]

Gnome Battle Cloak, from Races of Stone, is an exotic 'shield' (i.e. you need a feat to be proficient in it) which gives you a +1 shield bonus, no penalties, and a +4 to disarming opponents with it if you're proficient.

What happens if you aren't proficient? You take the ACP to attacks (as normal), or you can't benefit from the shield bonus? I seem to remember it was the latter...

Edit: Yep... too bad... Was gonna nab one of these for a character.