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Can you use Scare to Death more than one time on a specific enemy during a battle? And secondly, does the incapacitation effect only the critical failure roll on the death affect or is it incapacitation for every result?
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Yes, you could use it again, but only afer 1 minute has passed - which is unlikely in most cases.
The incapacitation trait is on the ability, which means it affects every result. It seems to be intended to use against enemies lower level than you aka lackeys.

Ah damn, so the correct strategy would be to use normal Demoralize against same level and above?
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The Total Package wrote:
Ah damn, so the correct strategy would be to use normal Demoralize against same level and above?

Yes. You can also do both, as Scare to Death does not mention Demoralize they do not share immunity/cooldown.

Still, at this level the -1 enemies can still be considerable obstacles, like the 305 hp of an adult red dragon (CR 14) - having them drop dead or fleeing for an action can be really good.
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The Total Package wrote:
Ah damn, so the correct strategy would be to use normal Demoralize against same level and above?

Incapacitation effects work normally against same level creatures. Only higher level ones are protected.

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Since Scare to Death is essentially Demoralize with the degrees of success shifted up by one step, it ends up having exactly the same effect against higher level targets after application of the incap trait as Demoralize does. Except that it gives you an additional use, since they're still nominally different actions and don't make the target immune to each other.
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Dr. Frank Funkelstein wrote:
The incapacitation trait is on the ability, which means it affects every result. It seems to be intended to use against enemies lower level than you aka lackeys.

Oh wow. I always thought incapacitation only applied on the save against death.

Then I thought it must be a legacy thing, but nope, it applied to the whole feat in Premaster as well.

I wonder what caused this Mandella effect?
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It was errataed, Ravingdork. So no Mandela effect.
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SuperBidi wrote:
It was errataed, Ravingdork. So no Mandela effect.

Stop wringing my brain, Paizo! XD

Ravingdork wrote:
SuperBidi wrote:
It was errataed, Ravingdork. So no Mandela effect.
Stop wringing my brain, Paizo! XD

Also, Mandela's dead, so no more Mandela effects!!!!

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The errata Scare to Death got didn't give it the incapacitation trait, it always had that. You might be mixing it up with the death trait, which the errata did move from the feat to the critical success effect.

You're right, they changed the failure effect to become a critical failure effet on the save against Death.
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