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A player in my game recently attempted to use True Strike in combination with Devise a Stratagem in order to get two rolls as part of the check.
I made a table ruling of "No" due to what I thought would be incompatible wording, and I'm still pretty certain of that. That said, after reading both abilities after the session, I think there might be room for this to actually work.
Choose a creature you can see and roll a d20. If you Strike the chosen creature later this round, you must use the result of the roll you made to Devise a Stratagem for your Strike's attack roll instead of rolling. You make this substitution only for the first Strike you make against the creature this round, not any subsequent attacks.
The next time you make an attack roll before the end of your turn, roll the attack twice and use the better result. The attack ignores circumstance penalties to the attack roll and any flat check required due to the target being concealed or hidden.
The argument here would be that since Devise a Stratagem substitutes the result of its own attack roll with that of an otherwise normal strike, on the condition that True Strike is cast before Devise a Stratagem, then you would roll twice on the Devise a Stratagem check and pick the better of the two, as the Devise a Stratagem roll is the only attack roll you'd make in that round.
Could this argument, or some version of it, hold water?
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You took the right decison, since both actions have the fortune trait.
A fortune effect beneficially alters how you roll your dice. You can never have more than one fortune effect alter a single roll. If multiple fortune effects would apply, you have to pick which to use. If a fortune effect and a misfortune effect would apply to the same roll, the two cancel each other out, and you roll normally.
I utterly overlooked that! Thanks for pointing it out.
Case closed I guess.
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Wait...
If multiple fortune effects would apply, you have to pick which to use.
Does that means that if you roll bad with the Devise... you could use True Strike (or another fortune effect) on the attack and choose the second fortune effect to basically get to roll something else, losing the fortune effect of Devise? Considering most fortune effects are limited ressources (non cantrip spells, once per day/hour abilities)... that doesn’t seem like a broken thing from the top of my head... but I’m probably missing something...
You could also cancel out the fortune effect of the devise with a misfortune effect.
