when an ability says you may use it once per round does it mean once per YOUR turn or does it mean once per each persons/npcs turn? is there a difference between a turn and a round...is turn a technical term in pathfinder?
Once per round, a round being the time it takes to hit the bottom of an initiative order and come around to the top again.
Your turn is part of the round.
thought so, thank you much.
It depends on the action type of the ability.
If it's a free action, swift action, standard action, or move action, it happens once per YOUR turn (unless otherwise specified by the ability).
If it's an immediate action, you can use it once per YOUR turn or once per SOMEONE ELSE'S (including monsters) turn, but you can't use it again until your (or someone else's) next turn happens (unless otherwise specified by the ability).
How I have always ran it: If you get a power 1/round then that power is only refreshed at the start of your turn. It doesn't matter if it is swift or immediate you do not get another one until your turn comes up again.
- Gauss
Yep. That's how I run it as well. So you can do something right before your initiative count, and then directly afterwards, if it's a swift action. But then you wouldn't be able to do it again until your next initiative count.
And, Holy Moo, your TURN is your initiative count as a part of the overall ROUND.
To make it simpler, everyone gets one TURN in each ROUND.
Not sure how you are getting a swift action before your initiative count comes up. Immediate action yes, swift no.
- Gauss
Not sure how you are getting a swift action before your initiative count comes up. Immediate action yes, swift no.
- Gauss
You wouldn't. That should have read "IMMEDIATE" not "SWIFT". Edited.
I should note there is one specific exception here. If you use a swift action on your turn and then between your turn and your next turn (next round) you need to use an immediate action the rules specifically state you can do so but you burn your next round's swift action.
- Gauss
Indeed, but we are now way off topic, albeit related and tangential.