Rerolls interacting with rerolls


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Basically can you reroll a reroll or is it like 40k where you can never reroll a reroll?

The Exchange

Almost every instance of a reroll in the rules is followed by the boilerplate statement, "The character must accept the results of the reroll even if it is worse than the original roll." It's pretty rare to have two effects that both allow rerolls, and thanks to that boilerplate I'm not sure you'd get a second reroll anyway - you 'must' accept the results of the first reroll.

I'm not sure how the rules will interact when you're under a "bad reroll" effect (pugwampi aura, etc.) and also a "good reroll" (bit of luck, etc.)


Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

The second part is more what the question is about, in40k its never a problem because you can never reroll a reroll no matter what made you do it.

Grand Lodge

Well, this is not 40k.

Also, there is no specific rules regarding the rerolls of rerolls.


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Which is exactly why i was asking

Grand Lodge

Unfortunately, there is not much out there to answer your question.

Sczarni

Mythic characters can usually make 2 die re-rolls with some abilities/skills and take the highest one... but if BOTH are lower than the original, guess what? They are stuck with one of the two re-rolls! RAW there is nothing limiting the number of re-rolls EXCEPT that you have to have abilities that allow them in the first place. Do they stack? RAW, yes. If you have one ability that allows a re-roll of say STEALTH, and a MYTHIC ability that allows a re-roll of STEALTH with two dice, then yeh, you can re-roll the first one (say you got a 1) and if don't like that (say you repeated the 1), re-roll again using the other ability (this re-roll with 2 dice, odds of rolling 4 1's is 160,000:1). Nothing that I can see that stops you from using multiple abilities in this fashion. Heck, in theory, one of the "re-rolls" could even be a "take 10" instead of a roll, right?

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