Swapping soul shards as an immediate action?


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In the penultimate Age of Worms adventure (against Dragotha) the PCs get fragments of a ghost's soul. These fragments, once bonded with the PCs, can be swapped as an immediate action once per round. Does this mean they can be swapped once per round per character or once per round, period?

To clarify: If I have a soul fragment and use an immediate action to transfer it to an ally, can that ally then use an immediate action to transfer it back to me, in the same round?

Thanks,
Galen


According to the Expanded Psionics Handbook an immediate action consumes a very small amount of time but represents a larger expenditure of effort and energy than a free action. You can perform one immediate action per turn.

I don't see why you couldn't have your ally transfer it back to you immediately for his immediate action. The real question is how long does it take for the fragment to bond with the character (and I am assuming give its benefits)? I don’t have the adventure in front of me so don’t know what it says about this.

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Once per round per character, and no more than one soul fragment at a time.

If you have a soul fragment and transfer it to an ally, he could send it back to you at any point during that round. Once it came back to you, though, you wouldn't be able to transfer it again until your next action.


James Jacobs wrote:
Once per round per character, and no more than one soul fragment at a time.

Thanks James - to clarify, you can only have one soul fragment at a time? Thus if I had the artist fragment and my friend had the scholar fragment, I could not use an immediate action to give him the artist fragment, because then he would have two fragments, correct?

Galen

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