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The new Alternate Racial Traits of Wayang
It need a free action, so you can't use it off your turn. Is that mean you can't use it on most of saving throws?
It says that you can choose to use it before you make a saving throw, so even if you normally cannot use a free action like that this one has specific license to be used that way.
Shadow Speaker (Su): Countless whispers of powerful beings from the Shadow Plane—long since dead or deeply dreaming—echo in the minds of wayangs with strong spiritual connections to the darkness. These faint voices hint at revelations of things to come and suggest actions for receptive listeners to undertake. Three times per day as a free action, but no more than once per turn, a wayang with this racial trait can heed these uncanny whispers to gain a +2 insight bonus on an ability check, attack roll, caster level check, concentration check, saving throw, or skill check. The wayang must choose to use this ability before making the appropriate die roll. This racial trait replaces shadow magic
The 'must' in there (to my mind anyway) means that you either must or must not choose to use it before the listed rolls, it is not optional if you have not used up all your per day uses.
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It's need a free action, so you can't use it off your turn. Is that mean you can't use it on most of saving throws?
By a strict reading of the RAW, yes.
If you look at the sentence, most of those uses are on your turn. Since all Su abilities are standard by default, the write added as a "free action" so you could use it. He likely didn't think about the inability to do a free action when it isn't your turn.
I'd run this as a free action on your turn and no action for save when not your turn.
