Rogue Talent - Hunters Surprise

[Phast]

Benefit: Once per day, a rogue with this talent can designate a single enemy she is adjacent to as her prey. Until the end of her next turn, she can add her sneak attack damage to all attacks made against her prey, even if she is not flanking it or it is not flat-footed.

So reading this is lasts until the end of the next turn, SO, is this saying that while your attacking normally your sizing up the prey for the Hunters Surprise?

and only get one sneak attack damage attack or is this allowing two of them?

[Andy Brown]

you get sneak attack damage on all attacks against that enemy until the end of your next turn; how many that is will depend on your BAB, and you're at least 10th level, so that's 2 attacks from BAB, plus any from TWF or Haste, per round.

What I can't find at the moment is the action required to activate Hunter's Surprise - can't see anything giving a default action type for Rogue Talents or Ex abilities (but could easily have missed either/both of those)

[dragonhunterq]

If an ability doesn't state otherwise it is almost certainly a standard action.
Extraordinary actions default to standard actions that do not provoke AoOs.

So you activate this ability, then your next turns attacks add sneak attack damage (and any AoOs you get to take in between)

[Andy Brown]

Thanks, that was the bit I was looking for

[Phast]

Thank you.

[Claxon]

It's actually not a very good talent because your prey could move away from you and requires you to spend a standard action to activate. Making it a free or swift action would make it just strong enough that it might be worth taking. But as it sits having to be next to your enemy and spend a standard action to activate hunter's surprise means you could end up only being able to make 1 attack if they move away (or none if they move faster than you).

You're much better off finding some other method of getting sneak attack (such as Two Weapon Feint) or the Circling Mongoose Combo.

[Talonhawke]

What's the combo with Circling Mongoose? Other than taking forever to come online?

[Claxon]

Circling Mongoose + Canny Tumble

[Talonhawke]

thankies

Edit: dear god my wife is gonna hate me.