I hope you all can help me resolve a minor dispute I am having with one of my players. Based upon my reading of the description of the mesmerist ability, Painful Stare, it appears to me that the mesmerist can use that ability to add damage to a single attack on the target per round. Meanwhile, the player thinks it can be added to every attack on the target each round. According to him, if 10 people hit the target in the same round, he can add damage to all 10 attacks. What do you think?
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When an attack that deals damage hits the target of a mesmerist's hypnotic stare, the mesmerist can cause the target to take an amount of additional damage equal to 1/2 the mesmerist's class level (minimum 1). The mesmerist can use this ability as a free action, and can use it even if it isn't his turn.
A mesmerist can trigger this ability only once per round...
The mesmerist has to trigger the ability for it to take affect. And can only trigger it once per round. So it only applies to the one attack.
That was my reasoning, too. Thank you very much!
There's a feat in Magic Tactics Toolbox that allows you to use Painful Stare more than once a round. You can take it multiple times as either a feat or in place of a Bold Stare improvement.
Ah, Manifold Stare? Had I known about the existence of that feat, that would have helped to answer my question in the first place. Thank you, too.