I recently purchased Occult adventures, and while considering a three man group for PFS came across the Interweave Composite blast feat. This got me wondering.
Consider a party that contains 3 1st level Kineticists who have all taken the Interweave Composite Blast feat.
Kineticist A readies an action to activate a simple blast while within 15' of Kineticist C
Kineticist B readies an action to activate a simple blast while within 15' of Kineticist C.
Kineticist C gathers power and then activates a simple blast.
What happens? RAW seems to indicate you trigger the feat twice and thus get two composite blasts, as its seems to be written from the perspective of the readied action character.
"Whenever you are within 15 feet of another character who has this feat, you can ready an action to activate a simple blast of your choice. When that character unleashes a simple blast, yours is triggered, creating a composite blast for which the two simple blasts meet the prerequisites."
Also, in the feat description, why is the participant who didn't take the ready action the only one who has a move action to take prior to the blast? Doesn't the readying player have a move and a swift action on their turn, before using their standard to ready? Gather power indicates it reduces the burn cost by 1 for a round.
Thanks.
You can only trigger a readied action once. If I ready an action to attack an enemy that comes within reach and 2 enemies approach I don't get to attack them both.
With the gather power bit, I'm going with the writer didn't understand the rules properly as from what I understand you can take a move/swift before readying. Maybe we've both missed something!
You can only trigger a readied action once. If I ready an action to attack an enemy that comes within reach and 2 enemies approach I don't get to attack them both.
I don't think that applies. No single character is reacting twice. It's more like two characters ready an action to attack a single enemy who comes into reach. Both would get to attack. In this case substitute allied kineticist C activating a simple blast as a standard (non-readied) action for enemy entering within reach.
Now it's quite possible RAI is only 1 composite happens, which would be good to get clarified, but I believe the readied action portion checks out.
Edit:I realize I phrased it poorly. When I said the feat triggers twice, I meant to imply once for character A and once for character B, both in reaction to C's blast.
Ah! I get it - total reading comprehension fail on my part, your phrasing was fine.
C only releases 1 blast, while both A and B potentially trigger only 1 can actually create a composite blast. The other readied action will be wasted as there is no longer a simple blast to composite with.
Going by RAW I would say you are indeed correct. And honestly, seems like a nice trick to be used while GMing for a thematic encounter.
As for PCs, if someone want to make a three kineticist party to use this trick, it fall into the GM to decide if he is comfortable with them using this strategy, or simply tell them "please don't".
Honestly, is not all that powerfull. Instead of 3 simple blast you have 2 composite. Composites deals double the damage dice of a simple. So you are dealing 4x base dice damage + 2x static modifiers (cos+PBS ecc) instead of 3x dice + 3x modifiers, and you also have the restriction of having to apply a single wild talent (assuming you let the composite to be modified by wild talents, witch i'm not sure if is legal or not by the wording of the feat) to all of them instead of applying potentially three differents effects.