Players get one Immediate Action a round. Do Immediate Actions reset at the very start of the round? Or do they reset their Immediate Actions at the start of their own initiative?
For instance, let's say someone can cast as an Immediate Action (say Stone Shield). He has an Initiative of 10.
It's Round 1.
If someone attacked him on Initiative 15 and he uses (as an Immediate Action) Stone Shield to block that attack, does he have an Immediate Action available on Initiative 5?
Now it's Round 3.
On Initiative 1, he uses Stone Shield as an immediate action to block an attack. Would he be able to cast Stone Shield to block an attack on Round 4, Initiative 15?
My view of Immediate Actions is that it resets at the start of the round. My GM feels it is at the start of the player's initiative.
It's at the very end of your turn. RAWmonger quoted the right rule, but got the logic of it slightly wrong. e.g, if it reset at the start of your turn, you could use a swift on your turn even if you previously used a immediate just before your turn. But the rules tell us the immediate prevents using a swift on your upcoming turn. But once your turn is over you could use another immediate again.
So given the OPs example, the initiative count is irrelevant. All that matters is: Has a characters turn ended since the last time they took either an immediate or a swift action? If so, they can take an immediate or swift action.
It’s at the
startEND of your specific turn. Quote from the immediate actions entry:“You cannot use another immediate action or a swift action until after your next turn if you have used an immediate action when it is not currently your turn (effectively, using an immediate action before your turn is equivalent to using your swift action for the coming turn).”
Immediate actions “use up” your swift action, and you’re not granted another swift action until THE END OF your turn, ergo you don’t have the option to use an immediate action.
You almost got it.
EDIT: Ninja'd by 33 seconds =P
@Tangent101 - It doesn't matter what round the combat is in or what initiative count the immediate action was used on, you simply have one swift/immediate action per round. The counter resets at the end of YOUR turn (not the end of the combat round).
If you use an immediate action on initiative count 14 (the person before you), then you'd be unable to use a swift/immediate action on initiative count 15 (your turn), but it would reset and be available again on initiative count 16 (the person after you). This would also work if all 3 characters acted on the same initiative count, eg you all tied for initiative and rolled to see who went first - the count doesn't matter, only the order.
Thank you, gang. :)