Ninja Hidden Master Question


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Sovereign Court

So I have a question. Would a Ninja firing both barrels of double barreled pistol at the same time be able to reduce an opponents ability score by 20pts when using hidden master or would they have to reduce two separate ability scores by 10pts? This is of course assuming you sacrifice all of you sneak attack bonuses for one round.

Hidden Master wrote:


At 20th level, a ninja becomes a true master of her art. She can, as a standard action, cast greater invisibility on herself. While invisible in this way, she cannot be detected by any means, and not even invisibility purge, see invisibility, and true seeing can reveal her. She uses her ninja level as her caster level for this ability. Using this ability consumes 3 ki points from her ki pool. In addition, whenever the ninja deals sneak attack damage, she can sacrifice additional damage dice to apply a penalty to one ability score of the target equal to the number of dice sacrificed for 1 minute. This penalty does not stack with itself and cannot reduce an ability score below 1.

Lantern Lodge

They work as seperate attacks, so could reduce the same ability score to 20.


kaisc006 wrote:
They work as seperate attacks, so could reduce the same ability score to 20.

They're two seperate attacks, see also:

"This penalty does not stack with itself and cannot reduce an ability score below 1."

So, a -10 penalty to 2 different stats possible, but not -20 to one.

Lantern Lodge

Funky Badger wrote:
"This penalty does not stack with itself and cannot reduce an ability score below 1.

Missed that... Not sure now why it's even a question if they stack or not...

Sovereign Court

Well, a -10 to two ability scores with no save is still nice. Not as nice as a -20 to Con with no save but still pretty nice.

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