Oracle Energy Body

[el_skootro]

A clarification on rules needed here - in the Advance Player Guide it says regarding the Energy Body revelation for Oracles that:
"You may remain in energy body form for a number of rounds per day equal to your oracle level."
So does that mean at first level I can use this ability once per day or that I can only use it one round at a time?

[Mauril]

At first level, the two are synonymous, since you have to use the ability in increments of 1 round. You only have one round of usage per day. So you can use it once, for a single round. At second level, you can use the ability for two consecutive rounds, or two non-consecutive rounds.

[Richard Leonhart]

I don't really see the problem, but here goes:

you use energy body once per day, and it stays on for X rounds, where X is your oracle level.

One might argue that you can use it in X single rounds whenever you want, but as it says "you may remain", I would argue that once switched on, you can switch it on again until next day.

[Elven_Blades]

I'm gonna have to argue against the last line of your post Rich.

I compare this ability to several other supernatural abilities i can think of. For example, the "wings of heaven" ability of a 9th level celestial sorcerer states, (paraphrasing a bit) "can be used minutes per dsy equal to level. Must be used in one minute increments"

I think the confusion here may come from the fact that Energy Body only lasts rounds, as opposed to longer increment of time. Seeing as both of these abilities, and other i can think of that work similarly, are all supernatural abilities that require a standard action to activate, that it should be assumed that you could "remain" in form for as long as you want ( up to your limit of rounds per day, of course ), or use it for 1 round at a time many times per day.

I think the lack of clear wording in the book is a result of the ability only lasting for rounds, which is already the lowest increment that spells and abilities are calculated in.

[0gre]

It seems like this should be usable multiple times per day but that language is missing. In fact any reference to how often you can use the ability is missing. I'm curious myself about this now because it is a mystery I was going to use.

[Quandary]

I´m hitting the FAQ (errata) button on the top post...
I´m 99% sure it´s usable as many times as you have rounds remaining,
but it´s specific wording ´remain´ as opposed to ´use´ doesn´t make that clear.

[lastblacknight]

/resurrect

Do we have a FAQ on this yet?

Is it energy body II (because you become a medium size fire elemental?

[Corvo Spiritwind]

Energy Body says specifically at the end that you can use it X amount of rounds per day.

Flame Body on the other hand says specifically Once per day for x amount of hours. You can turn Energy body on/off as long as you got rounds left, much like rage or bardic performance.

[Lemartes]

I believe it is as Mauril said. A great ability. Immunity to poison, crits and sneak attacks for a few rounds a day...yes please.

[mplindustries]

Energy Body is usable for a number of rounds per day equal to your level. It can be turned on and off at will until you reach that limit. I don't see how this is confusing. Is the word "remain" really messing people up that badly?

[Tormad]

I disagree, every other ability that says you can split up the rounds per days says so specifically. I believe it is only usable once per day and it lasts X number of rounds, or less if you choose.

My question is can it be used to heal multiple people in one round?

energybody excerpt wrote:

... Once per round, if you pass through a living allied creature’s square or the ally passes through your square, it heals 1d6 hit points + 1 per oracle level....

So does that mean you can only heal one person per round or if everyone stood in a line = move speed and you walked through them, you could heal each of them for that amount in a single round?

[Kydeem de'Morcaine]

I believe you can heal multiple people in a round. We actually did it the other way. I activated energy body, then started casting spells. While I was doing that, others started moving through my square to get healing. (We were getting hit with lots of minor area attacks and I was out of channels.)

But I also believe you can break it up as you chose. However, I never have. When needed, it has always been for the full duration.

I used it as counter to deeper darkness, attacking undead when out of spells, and/or protection from a bunch of sneak attacks.

[Darkwolf117]

Tormad wrote:

energybody excerpt wrote:

... Once per round, if you pass through a living allied creature’s square or the ally passes through your square, it heals 1d6 hit points + 1 per oracle level....

So does that mean you can only heal one person per round or if everyone stood in a line = move speed and you walked through them, you could heal each of them for that amount in a single round?

I'm pretty sure once per round means... erm, once per round. So yes, one person can be healed in a round, regardless of how many spaces you move through or how many move through you. I get what you're saying, but reading it definitely does not strike me as having that interpretation.

[Tormad]

I have a follow player that is using it the second way, and is using the body in rounds per day that can be separated up.

I believe it is the other way around so its once per day for X rounds and one person per round. But I'm not gonna get anywhere on that because its up to the GM to change that, and as the GM is his GF that's not going to happen. -.-

Oh well what can you do.

[mplindustries]

I am 95% positive that:

1) Energy Body can be used for x number of rounds per day and can be turned on/off at will until all the rounds are used up.

2) You can use the healing ability once per round--not once per person per round.

[Kydeem de'Morcaine]

mplindustries wrote:

I am 95% positive that:

1) Energy Body can be used for x number of rounds per day and can be turned on/off at will until all the rounds are used up.

2) You can use the healing ability once per round--not once per person per round.

You may be right. To be honest, I never gave it serious consideration before this. That was just how we read it the first time and we've been going with it since. We will look at it again next week.

It won't make much of a difference to me either way, I've only used it that way once.

[asthyril]

mplindustries wrote:

I am 95% positive that:

1) Energy Body can be used for x number of rounds per day and can be turned on/off at will until all the rounds are used up.

2) You can use the healing ability once per round--not once per person per round.

i concur.