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How does the spell Overwhelming Presence interact with Haste or the Release action?
Overwhelming Presence states, "You surround yourself with supernatural splendor, appearing to be a god or similarly majestic being. You choose the aspects of your new majestic appearance. This causes the targets to pay tribute to you by bowing or using some other action in keeping with your appearance. The number of times a target must do this depends on the result of their Will save. Paying tribute is a manipulate action or move action, as chosen by the creature paying tribute. A creature under this effect must pay tribute to you at least once on each of its turns if possible. While affected by this spell, a creature is fascinated by you and can't use hostile actions against you. The target is then temporarily immune for 1 minute."
I searched the forums and couldn't find any posts specifically related to my questions, so I thought I would ask.
During our game, I cast the spell haste and had Overwhelming Presence cast on me. So, at the beginning of my next turn, I gained an extra action that can only be used to Stride or Strike. Since the spell stated that I could use a move action to pay tribute, I asked if I could use the bonus Stride to pay tribute by slithering on the ground. It was ruled that 'Paying Tribute' constitutes a 1-action activity so I couldn't use the bonus Stride action. It was ruled that because the spell states, 'Paying tribute is a manipulate action or move action, as chosen by the creature paying tribute.' then it is my choice if the 'Paying Tribute' activity gains the manipulate or move trait. What are people's thoughts? Is 'Paying Tribute' a 1-action activity?
My second question was about activities and the sub-actions under them. For example, if while 'Paying Tribute' I 'Release' my weapon/gold at the feet of the creature, have I just created an activity that has the manipulate trait but is also composed of a single free action? Would that activity also be free? If so, would it count toward the Overwhelming Presence action requirement?