Question on Swift Actions


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Silver Crusade

Am I allowed to use a Swift Action before or after a Full- Attack?

In Example:
I'm a Sacred Fist! I use my Fervor to cast Divine Favor. I then use Pummeling Charge/Style to charge to my opponent and deliver a hopefully devastating Full-Attack(Flurry 4 times or something, with IUS).


When else would you use it? I'm not 100% sure you can use a swift action in the middle of a full attack.

But yes, you get a swift action in addition to your other actions. It is not dependent on the nature of those actions. There are no restrictions on the order you take your actions (unlike some games where you may have to take your move action first for instance).


PRD, Combat wrote:
You can take a swift action anytime you would normally be allowed to take a free action.

Silver Crusade

Rhatahema wrote:
PRD, Combat wrote:
You can take a swift action anytime you would normally be allowed to take a free action.

Well that settles that. Thank you for the cite too!

It doesn't count against a Full Attack, correct? A Full Attack is just a special composure of a Standard+Movement in a sense?


Kazumetsa_Raijin wrote:
Rhatahema wrote:
PRD, Combat wrote:
You can take a swift action anytime you would normally be allowed to take a free action.

Well that settles that. Thank you for the cite too!

It doesn't count against a Full Attack, correct? A Full Attack is just a special composure of a Standard+Movement in a sense?

Not quite. A full-attack is a full-round action. You can perform free actions and swift actions during a full-round action. Search (ctrl+f) the combat section of the PRD for these terms to gain a better understanding. Some of the rules are a bit scattered on that page. :)

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