General Saving Throw Question

[richard develyn]

Is it fair to say that you shouldn't have to make more than one saving throw against any particular effect more than once per round?

For example, if you enter a cloud of poison gas, then go out and in and out and in, all in the same round, you would still only save once?

Richard

[kinevon]

In general, that is correct, any specific effect should only have a chance to affect you once per round.

Note that the Persistent Spell metamagic feat, along with certain other class or racial abilities, can cause you to have to make multiple saving throws, and use either the best or worse roll, against a specific effect.

You can also wind up having to deal with multiple similar effects in a single round. Each would have its own saving throw. I could see someone being the target of multiple bullrush attempts to knock them over the edge of a pit or cliff...

And being affected by multiple doses of poison is handled a bit differently, too. There is a blog or FAQ on here somewhere detailing how poison is supposed to work.

[richard develyn]

I'm wondering whether it should be once per round or once per action.

For example, would you allow a character to be trampled twice by the same creature - one move action to run over him, a second to run back over him?

Richard

[Ansel Krulwich]

richard develyn wrote:

I'm wondering whether it should be once per round or once per action.

For example, would you allow a character to be trampled twice by the same creature - one move action to run over him, a second to run back over him?

Richard

Trample (Ex) wrote:

A trampling creature can only deal trampling damage to each target once per round, no matter how many times its movement takes it over a target creature.

Overrun is also a standard action, not a move action.