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I have a player in my campaign playing a Bard/Barbarian, and we recently had a situation where he wanted to use the Arcane Strike feat while raging.
Arcane Strike (from the CRB):
As a swift action, you can imbue your weapons with a fraction of your power. For 1 round, your weapons deal +1 damage and are treated as magic for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. For every five caster levels you possess, this bonus increases by +1, to a maximum of +5 at 20th level.
Barbarian Rage (also from CRB):
(snip) While in rage, a barbarian cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, Fly, Intimidate, and Ride) or any ability that requires patience or concentration. (snip)
Question is, does the Arcane Strike require concentration? That would be the only thing I could think of that would prevent this from working.
No it requires a swift action. It doesn't say that concentration is required or patiences, it's a half second of magic leakage onto the weapon so that it hurts things more...
Kind of like an almost smite sort of effect.
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No it requires a swift action. It doesn't say that concentration is required or patiences, it's a half second of magic leakage onto the weapon so that it hurts things more...
Kind of like an almost smite sort of effect.
Awesome. I had ruled at the time that it would be legal, and I would be consulting people on these boards for future reference.
I guess I am used to 2nd edition and 3.0 Barbarians that couldn't really do anything while raging.