Judgement before surprise round?


Round 3: Alchemist and Inquisitor

Liberty's Edge

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Can you Judgement before the surprise round? The judgement ability doesn't seem to have any vocal or semantic components to it. It's just a supernatural ability.. which means it doesn't provoke an attack of opportunity.

Great, but what about using it out of combat? Does using it on unaware target make them aware? As a swift action it can be used in a surprise round, but that does seem to me mean that using it starts the surprise round.

Let's face it, paladins walk around detect eviling everyone.. but that doesn't start brawls. :)

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