Can you continue to Rage if you're Dazed?


Rules Questions

Sovereign Court

It happened last time we sat down for our session: the raging Barbarian got dazed.

Does he stop raging and begin to suffer the aftereffects or he just counts rounds while he's dazed?

Fred


Dazed wrote:

The creature is unable to act normally. A dazed creature can take no actions, but has no penalty to AC.

A dazed condition typically lasts 1 round.
Rage wrote:

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A barbarian can end her rage as a free action and is fatigued after rage for a number of rounds equal to 2 times the number of rounds spent in the rage. A barbarian cannot enter a new rage while fatigued or exhausted but can otherwise enter rage multiple times during a single encounter or combat. If a barbarian falls unconscious, her rage immediately ends, placing her in peril of death.

When dazed, a barbarian does not stop raging. In fact, when it's the dazed barbarian's turn, he can't stop raging since it takes a free action and dazed denies the barbarian any action.

If the alloted rage rounds per day were up, then the dazed barbarian's rage would end.

So yeah, whether the barbarian is dazed or not, the number of rounds he can rage per day continues to count down.


I agree with GM Jeff.
The only things that ends the rage are unconsciousness/death, running out of rage rounds or voluntarily ending it as a free action.

Everything else would keep it running.


GM Jeff wrote:
Dazed wrote:

The creature is unable to act normally. A dazed creature can take no actions, but has no penalty to AC.

A dazed condition typically lasts 1 round.
Rage wrote:

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A barbarian can end her rage as a free action and is fatigued after rage for a number of rounds equal to 2 times the number of rounds spent in the rage. A barbarian cannot enter a new rage while fatigued or exhausted but can otherwise enter rage multiple times during a single encounter or combat. If a barbarian falls unconscious, her rage immediately ends, placing her in peril of death.

When dazed, a barbarian does not stop raging. In fact, when it's the dazed barbarian's turn, he can't stop raging since it takes a free action and dazed denies the barbarian any action.

If the alloted rage rounds per day were up, then the dazed barbarian's rage would end.

So yeah, whether the barbarian is dazed or not, the number of rounds he can rage per day continues to count down.

Your reasoning is flawed. The text states that the barbarian "can" choose to end the rage as a free action it do not state it is the only way to do so (besides unconscious).

But I do agree that a daze effect do not end the rage.


Perhaps not being able to end rage while dazed is RAW, or something vaguely resembling given an assumption, but it would be ridiculous to rule that is how it works, end of story.

Sovereign Court

That is the way we played it: cannot take any action, hence, cannot stop raging.

So he got all his bonuses/maluses associated with it.

It happened after a critical miss and we use the critical misses cards, so he was Dazed for 1-4 rnds, iirc.

Thanks guys!

Fred

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