Serendipitous Reaction, Deflect Arrows, and neener neener neener, you can't hit me.


Rules Questions

Grand Lodge

Hi all,

So in Chronicle of The Righteous, we have a Supernatural ability one gains at 16th level if you have the Celestial Obedience feat, that seems to suggest you can deflect as many arrows you want per round, (at least that's what I gather) rather than just 1.

Serendipitous Reaction wrote:

Serendipitous Reaction (Su) Three times per day, you can
knock aside a ranged attack that would have otherwise hit you,
as if you had the Deflect Arrows feat. You need not be aware
of the attack to use this ability. If you already have Deflect
Arrows, you may use this feat an unlimited number of times
per day
, and can use it even if you are unaware of an attack.

Emphasis mine, Serendipitous Reaction is not a feat.

Deflect Arrows wrote:


Benefit: You must have at least one hand free (holding nothing) to use this feat. Once per round when you would normally be hit with an attack from a ranged weapon, you may deflect it so that you take no damage from it. You must be aware of the attack and not flat-footed. Attempting to deflect a ranged attack doesn't count as an action. Unusually massive ranged weapons (such as boulders or ballista bolts) and ranged attacks generated by natural attacks or spell effects can't be deflected.

Any idea what's going on here?


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When you have both Deflect Arrows AND Serendipitous Reaction, I *think* it's removing the "N per Day" limit of Serendipitous Reaction AND the "must be aware of the attack" limit of Deflect Arrows but is NOT removing the "once per round" limitation of Deflect Arrows. At least that's how I read it.


Totally right, and by 16th level this wouldn't be very gamebreaking either. A single wizard could make a windwall in front of him as many times as they wanted with a wand alone, or a unique magic item with infinite uses, so this combination wouldn't be too difficult to have by this point.


And by Wind Wall you mean Fickle Winds or Winds of Vengeance. And then they laugh and laugh and laugh from the safety of the sky.


Yeah, if you have deflect arrows it removes the usage cap per day, but you are still limited to once per round.

So while good, hardly overpowering.

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