Hover feat

[Macgreine]

I was wondering if hovering is a separate action or is it part of somethings move action. For instance;

A dragon uses its flyby attack to use its breath weapon on some unlucky party. Can it move in, hover (causing a cloud of debris while it breathes) use its breath weapon and fly past in the same round?

btw it has flyby attack and hover.

[Speaker for the Dead]

I'd suggest that Hover would be a move action.

[R2D2TS]

As Speaker said, it would most likely be a move or part of one. I would say no to the example. When you Hover you halt your movement and when you do a Flyby you make an attack while you move.

Flyby Attack:

The PRD wrote:

Flyby Attack

This creature can make an attack before and after it moves while flying.

Prerequisite: Fly speed.

Benefit: When flying, the creature can take a move action and another standard action at any point during the move. The creature cannot take a second move action during a round when it makes a flyby attack.

Normal: Without this feat, the creature takes a standard action either before or after its move.

Hover:

The PRD wrote:

Hover

This creature can hover in place with ease and can kick up clouds of dust and debris.

Prerequisite: Fly speed.

Benefit: A creature with this feat can halt its movement while flying, allowing it to hover without needing to make a Fly skill check.

If a creature of size Large or larger with this feat hovers within 20 feet of the ground in an area with lots of loose debris, the draft from its wings creates a hemispherical cloud with a radius of 60 feet. The winds generated can snuff torches, small campfires, exposed lanterns, and other small, open flames of non-magical origin. Clear vision within the cloud is limited to 10 feet. Creatures have concealment at 15 to 20 feet (20% miss chance). At 25 feet or more, creatures have total concealment (50% miss chance, and opponents cannot use sight to locate the creature).

Normal: Without this feat, a creature must make a Fly skill check to hover and the creature does not create a cloud of debris while hovering.

*Edited to answer the initial portion.

[Rapthorn2ndform]

From the wording of the feat it seems like, from the wording of the feat and the Fly skill, it is NOT an action.

[Skylancer4]

While it might not be an action, it does say you need to halt movement. If you are using flyby, you aren't stopping to do it.

Strictly going from the wording we have, I would allow movement/flyby 'action' to occur and then where ever the dragon stops to hover, the debris would appear.

For the debris to occur, you have to be hovering, which mentions your movement halting. If you are using flyby attack, your action occurs at some point in the actual movement, which means you haven't stopped.