Medium's Sudden Attack ability


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Scarab Sages

From the Medium's Champion spirit

Sudden Attack:

Sudden Attack (Intermediate, Su): Whenever you take a full-attack action, you gain one additional attack at your highest base attack bonus. This ability stacks with the extra attack from haste, but it doesn't stack with special actions that grant extra attacks, such as flurry of blows or spell combat. Sudden attack works as normal with full-attack options such as two-weapon fighting.

What constitutes a 'special action'? Would rapid shot be considered a 'special action'? Or is it referring solely to class features that give you an extra attack? On a similar line of thought, would an extra attack from Blessing of Fervor stack with this ability?

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ioosef wrote:

From the Medium's Champion spirit

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What constitutes a 'special action'? Would rapid shot be considered a 'special action'? Or is it referring solely to class features that give you an extra attack? On a similar line of thought, would an extra attack from Blessing of Fervor stack with this ability?

Rapid shot is something you use during a normal full attack action. When you are making a flurry of blows or using spell combat, you are making a flurry of blows or using spell combat. They are their own things (flurry is a special type of full attack action, spell combat is actually a full-round action).

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