Cackle & Fortune used together...need some RAW clarification if someone in the Paizo Staff can help out, or maybe this has been covered in a thread?
this e-mail during a conversation with a player of mine who is also doing some moonlighting at the game shop.
What happened...he is running a fighter, witch uses fortune on him then cackles each round for 2 following rounds (3 total). Ruling at the table was that he was allowed to use it each round (hit 3 times due to the extra rolls). Sounded a little over the top (to him and me) so here was my response.
...last note for the witch "cackle" and "fortune"...your DM is reading cackle right, no question there but the end of the fortune special ability reads..."Once a creature has benefited from the fortune hex, it cannot benefit from it again for 24 hours." which is a little vague but my guess would be that the fortune effect would remain in effect until the creature benefited in some way.
Example: If you roll 2 attacks the first round and missed, no benefit, then witch cackles to extend, then you roll 2 attack die and hit then you benefited
...problem is the RAW states "The target can call upon this good luck once per round," which can be confusing b/c people would think that you can benefit more than once.
my interpretation would go with the word "benefit" being the key. If you don't benefit then the luck is still hanging on (through cackles or extension at 8th & 16th levels) if you do benefit then it is "spent", otherwise this power seems waaay overboard.
Of course just an opinion.
