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That is, taken from the srd:
Bit of Luck (Sp): You can touch a willing creature as a standard action, giving it a bit of luck. For the next round, any time the target rolls a d20, he may roll twice and take the more favorable result. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.
It doesn't say this only works for ONE roll. It implies it would work for any and all rolls for that round. Soo.. if say a character had 4 attacks that round they got to use 'bit of luck', they'd get to roll twice for each attack (and potentially other rolls as well), yes?
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It works on EVERY d20 roll on their turn. So if they make 1 skill check, 1 save, and 4 attacks, that's 12 d20's being rolled.
This is why it's the best cleric power in the game.
Also, since it explicitly calls out d20s, not Attacks, Saves, and Skills like most powers, it can be used on things like concentration checks, caster level checks, and ability checks.
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It works on EVERY d20 roll on their turn. So if they make 1 skill check, 1 save, and 4 attacks, that's 12 d20's being rolled.
This is why it's the best cleric power in the game.
Not just on your turn, for one round. So you get to roll twice for saving throws and any d20 rolls that you make between the time the cleric uses the power and just before same initiative count on the following round.
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If your GM allows you to take Quicken Spell-Like Ability, you'll even be able to use this on yourself and still take a full-round action. Unfortunately you can't take this before 11th level.
Wow,that is nasty!
For clarification: it says "For the next round", so when used it doesn't active immediately, it activates next round and functions until that round is over, correct?
it says "For the next round", so when used it doesn't active immediately, it activates next round and functions until that round is over, correct?
The Combat Round: "Effects that last a certain number of rounds end just before the same initiative count that they began on."
It lasts from the time you use it, to just before that init count on the next round.
Hmm.. darn well then it doesn't look like I'll be able to use this on myself to deliver my standard full round attacks then (AOO's and quicken spell like ability feat aside).
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Hmm.. darn well then it doesn't look like I'll be able to use this on myself to deliver my standard full round attacks then (AOO's and quicken spell like ability feat aside).
Correct.
Some people use a house rule that a cleric can use his domain ability on himself as a swift action, similar to a paladin and lay on hands.
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To some it may seem like a broken power, but in reality it isn't. Economy of actions is everything in Pathfinder. As far as a Cleric using Bit of Luck on himself in combat, using a Standard Action to re-roll dice doesn't have a significantly positive impact on damage output. If fact, using that standard action to attack is more effective than using it to give yourself a chance to roll the dice again for the same action next round. Put another way, it's exactly like choosing between rolling 2d6 and taking the best one, or rolling 2d6 and adding them together. Besides, thinking outside the box, if you have the power to give someone else a Bit of Luck for their full next round, why are you somehow a less valid recipient than them? It's somehow less broke for the cleric to stand by and give the Fighter with 6 attacks a Bit of Luck every single round than it is for the Cleric to use it on himself every OTHER round? The best Cleric attacks don't even involve a D20 roll! "Save vs Implosion"... 'nuff said.
Let your Clerics have some luck if they want. They're the ones paying the Standard Action for it.
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Bit of Luck is good for a Reach Cleric build. You can not use Bit of Luck to enhance your own attacks during your combat round. Using the ability requires your Standard Action, leaving you no remaining attack actions, and it runs out at the start of your next turn. However, a reach-style cleric can use Bit Of Luck on self, do dangerous stuff, set up for AoOs, and get 2 rolls on each AoO. Also, Bit of Luck gives two saving throws, so it's a really handy defensive ability.
Finally, the magic item Headband of Fortune's Favor deserves honorable mention. It increases the duration of Bit of Luck from 1 round to 2 rounds.
For the next round
But it says for the next round, so I would parse that it has a duration of one round beginning on the next round.
What's the argument for it starting on the round that you use it? Honestly confused here.
It's the same thing as saying 'for the next 24 hours'. If I say that at noon Monday, the timer doesn't start at midnight, it starts immediately.
I disagree, rounds don't work like that. They're consecutive six second periods in which every participant gets a turn to act.
You start counting from the first second of the 24 hours, subjectively defining the moment you start counting as 0 seconds. However, you're already, objectively, in a round when you use the ability and you surely can't say that the round you're already in is both the current and next round?
Besides, if that was the intent why wouldn't they just say 'For 1 round'? That would have been a lot simpler and taken less space.
Because consistent terminology is not something PF does. :p
I can see no other way to read this. 'For the next round' means, as you say, 'the next six seconds', just like 'for the next 24 hours' starts when you say it.
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Ummm... no. The rule that clarifies this was actually already posted and linked to earlier in this thread. See Grick's post early in the thread, quoting the Combat chapter of the Core Rulebook. Effects that last a round go from when they begin to just before the same initiative count of the following round.
Axl is correct that "for the next round" is analogous to "for the next day". The mistake is assuming that the phrase "for the next day" only has one interpretation, ie "the next day" after today is tomorrow, beginning at midnight. Even if we accept that we're talking about tomorrow, choosing midnight as a starting point is pretty arbitrary. Some cultures count days as beginning at dawn. The Jewish calendar counts a day as sunset through sunset.
But that's not the only way to read "for the next day". Since the word "day" has several dictionary definitions, one of which is "a division of time equal to 24 hours" (from Dictionary.com), "the next day" could also mean "the next 24 hours", which goes back to Zhayne's interpretation.
Thus, the phrases "the next day" and "the next round" are ambiguous enough to depend on context. In this case, it makes no sense for a magic power to not activate immediately unless its description specifically says there's a delay in activation. No other power in the game has a delay in activation, unless it explicitly says so. So it begins as soon as the cleric touches someone with it, and lasts for one round, ending just before the cleric's turn on the same initiative count of the following round.
Huh ... So, how useful would it be to have your familiar use this domain power on you?
The Emissary familiar gets a 1/day use of a domain power at 3rd character level. There are probably other ways to boost the number of times this can be used. Slap that familiar on a martial oriented class with multiple attacks per round ... Yum
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Huh ... So, how useful would it be to have your familiar use this domain power on you?
The Emissary familiar gets a 1/day use of a domain power at 3rd character level. There are probably other ways to boost the number of times this can be used. Slap that familiar on a martial oriented class with multiple attacks per round ... Yum
While there are ways for a cleric to get extra uses per day, I don't know how to get the familiar to use it more than once per day. That's just not enough of a boost to be worth the effort to get a familiar, though it may still be worth it for other things.
From memory, that familiar archetype is the one that can cast Guidance at will, isn't it? Or was that a side effect of the paladin archetype that gets that type of familiar? I don't remember now.
It's the Emissary Familiar archetype that grants the at will guidance, not the Chosen One Paladin archetype.
Chosen one grants the familiar a rank of Knowledge (Religion) for each Paladin level of the master, lets the familiar utilize the Paladin's lay on hands and channel positive energy (at double cost), grants an Improved Familiar (restricted to LG, NG, and LN outsiders in keeping with the patron deity) without actually granting the feat, and lets the familiar benefit from the Paladin's smite evil feature.
It's the Emissary Familiar archetype that grants the at will guidance, not the Chosen One Paladin archetype.
Chosen one grants the familiar a rank of Knowledge (Religion) for each Paladin level of the master, lets the familiar utilize the Paladin's lay on hands and channel positive energy (at double cost), grants an Improved Familiar (restricted to LG, NG, and LN outsiders in keeping with the patron deity) without actually granting the feat, and lets the familiar benefit from the Paladin's smite evil feature.
Yes, the Emissary archetype grants that ability. However, the Chosen One Paladin archetype grants the character an "emissary familiar". Its a package deal.
While there are ways for a cleric to get extra uses per day, I don't know how to get the familiar to use it more than once per day.
Are those ways feat related? There are ways to grant/gift feats to familiars. I know that there are boosts to domain ability use via favored class abilities, but those won't work for a familiar.
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While there are ways for a cleric to get extra uses per day, I don't know how to get the familiar to use it more than once per day.Are those ways feat related? There are ways to grant/gift feats to familiars. I know that there are boosts to domain ability use via favored class abilities, but those won't work for a familiar.
I don't know any feats for that. I have a halfling buff specialist cleric with the Luck domain, and I use the halfling cleric favored class bonus to get an extra 1/2 use per level of this power. With boosting my wisdom, I'll be able to do this a lot eventually.
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A, Bit of Luck, an old favorite. You will use it three times.
You have a multiple attack critical based martial compatriot.
Things are wrapping up, and you want to pretend to help while not blowing spell slots.
Initiative has been rolled, you are adjacent to a tempting compulsion target, and the enemy looks fairly magical.
Oh, and skill checks. Keeps rogues happy.
I cast resurrection on this thread!
The explanations above seem to indicate this power could not be used by the caster to roll twice for an attack.
My cleric could whack his warrior buddy in round 1, who would get 2 rolls on every d20 attempt until my initiative in round 2.
But my cleric could not whack himself in round 1 and get two attack rolls in round 2. Based on my understanding of actions - My cleric couldn't use this on himself (standard action) and then pick a lock, climb a wall, tell a lie, or any other skill check that is a standard action. He COULD cast it and then move (and attempt a stealth check on that move).
Feedback welcome.
EDIT: Perhaps clarified here: http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q8wm?Question-on-Luck-Domain-spells
Ahh a fellow Necromancer.