Valet familiar and Activities / Simultaneous Actions interaction


Rules Discussion


Valet familiar:

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You can command your familiar to deliver you items more efficiently. Your familiar doesn't use its 2 actions immediately upon your command. Instead, up to twice before the end of your turn, you can have your familiar Interact to retrieve an item of light or negligible Bulk you are wearing and place it into one of your free hands. The familiar can't use this ability to retrieve stowed items. If the familiar has a different number of actions, it can retrieve one item for each action it has when commanded this way.

So, when you use the command action to command a familiar with the Valet ability, two times in your turn, at any point during it, it can fetch and give you one item.

Activities/Simultaneous Actions:

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You can use only one single action, activity, or free action that doesn’t have a trigger at a time. You must complete one before beginning another. For example, the Sudden Charge activity states you must Stride twice and then Strike, so you couldn’t use an Interact action to open a door in the middle of the movement, nor could you perform part of the move, make your attack, and then finish the move.

Free actions with triggers and reactions work differently. You can use these whenever the trigger occurs, even if the trigger occurs in the middle of another action.

The question is simple:

Can that fall under the free action clause of the simultaneous action rule? (as an example if you command your familiar to "give me X when i do Y", thus giving it a trigger)

Meaning, can the familiar give you the item while you are already performing an action/activity?


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I don't think the Interact action to valet deliver an item is a free action. Certainly doesn't feel like it from my point of view.

And the valet ability doesn't specify a trigger for the action to happen on.

So why are you thinking that Valet is a free action with a trigger?


Farien wrote:

I don't think the Interact action to valet deliver an item is a free action. Certainly doesn't feel like it from my point of view.

And the valet ability doesn't specify a trigger for the action to happen on.

So why are you thinking that Valet is a free action with a trigger?

well, it happens during your turn in between your actions without costing you any more actions apart from the initial command. That was my initial thought of why it basically functions like a free action.

but with your comment i actually snapped back from that temporary logical leap and remebered that your action gives two actions to the familiar, it just uses them whenever you want in your turn but they are still actions, you are correct.

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