Subdomain Power Action Types?


Rules Questions


When an action type isn't listed for a domain's power is it assumed to be a free action? The Action of the power it replaces? Or are these just errors.

Examples:

Souls Subdomain
Touch the Spirit World (Su): With a touch, you can empower a weapon to affect incorporeal creatures. The weapon touched deals half damage to incorporeal creatures, or full damage if it is a magic weapon. This benefit lasts for a number of rounds equal to your cleric level. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier.

Defense Subdomain
Deflection Aura (Su): Once each day, you can emit a 20-foot aura for a number of rounds equal to your cleric level. Allies within the aura gain a +2 deflection bonus to AC and combat maneuver defense.


No, Standard Action. And yes, plenty of domain powers are terrible because of that.


Pupsocket wrote:
No, Standard Action. And yes, plenty of domain powers are terrible because of that.

Is there a link to relevant FAQ or is that just a common sense ruling?


Roshan wrote:
Pupsocket wrote:
No, Standard Action. And yes, plenty of domain powers are terrible because of that.
Is there a link to relevant FAQ or is that just a common sense ruling?

No FAQ, just the rulebooks. (Su) and (Sp) abilities are all standard actions unless otherwise specified.

Lantern Lodge

Roshan wrote:
Pupsocket wrote:
No, Standard Action. And yes, plenty of domain powers are terrible because of that.
Is there a link to relevant FAQ or is that just a common sense ruling?

"Unless otherwise noted, using a domain power is a standard action."

It's in the Section on Domains in the Cleric description.


Thanks, never realized that the action defaulted to standard. Strange that they say that unless otherwise noted a domain power uses a standard action but then have domain powers (like fire or luck) that specificilly say they use standard actions.


Roshan wrote:
Thanks, never realized that the action defaulted to standard. Strange that they say that unless otherwise noted a domain power uses a standard action but then have domain powers (like fire or luck) that specificilly say they use standard actions.

Haha, if we wanted to list out all the times they've printed redundant text...

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