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title: "Off-Guard"
noteType: ":luggage:"
aliases: "Off-Guard"
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  - Item
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# Off-Guard
![[systems-pf2e-icons-conditions-off-guard.webp]]

You're distracted or otherwise unable to focus your full attention on defense. You take a -2 circumstance penalty to AC. Some effects give you the off-guard condition only to certain creatures or against certain attacks. Others-especially conditions-can make you universally off-guard against everything. If a rule doesn't specify that the condition applies only to certain circumstances, it applies to all of them; for example, many effects simply say "The target is off-guard."