Scenario:
A level-dipped Inspired Blade (Swashbuckler)/Empiricist (Investigator) uses her True Strike extract. Before her next round is up she is attacked and decides to use Opportune Parry and Riposte. Does the +20 apply to the parry since it is resolved as an attack roll, does it apply to the responding attack if her parry is successful, or does it apply to nothing until her next true attack in the following round?
I'm specifically asking as I'm theory-crafting a character for PFS and was looking at the extract list when the idea that True Strike could be used as a "get out of jail free card" vs a melee attacker if an attack came prior to the next round.
Thanks in advance for any answers!
The way I understand it is:
1) You would need to use the true strike extract at the end of your turn
2) You are attacked
3) You proceed to parry the attack (you get the true strike bonus here)
4) You proceed to use riposte
You must use the extract at the end of your turn, otherwise it would be used up when you attack. Unless you do not make an attack that turn.
As the parry is defined as an attack roll, it would use up that bonus from true strike.
Then the attack for the riposte occurs, and you do not gain the benefit from true strike to it.
The rolls to parry and riposte are two separate attack rolls, and as true strike only applies to a single roll it cannot affect both.
Thanks, Claxon, that's what I was thinking too.