Zealous Drawback Ruling

[Erpa]

Zealous: You are fanatical in your beliefs, ruled by emotion over reason. When you attack a creature that you know worships a different religion than you do, you take a —5 penalty on the attack roll and a +2 trait bonus on the damage roll with your first attack.

A quick random polling; would you say this only occurs on the very first attack that occurs in an encounter, or would you say that this occurs on the very first attack in each round for the PC?

I lean towards the very first attack in the encounter. Hoping to destroy the infidel as quickly as he can, our PC unleashes himself in a fit of religious battlelust. Whether or not his enemy falls, after that it becomes about surviving the fight.

[Diego Rossi]

I would say first attack against each specific foe in a encounter.
If the foe flee and you meet it again in another encounter, your first attack will suffer for the modifier again.

[Erpa]

Hunh. And there I go, forgetting about other enemies in combat. Yes, I would agree with that as well, Diego.