Level Up (A5E) Looking for clarification on Blood Frenzy Elite ability

[Nathaniel Lee]

One Elite monster with the Blood Frenzy ability is the Elder Vampire. The ability says that the creature can take 3 legendary actions instead of 1. I just wanted to verify that what this means is that the creature is able to use more than 1 after another creature's turns, so if it had 3 actions that each cost 1 action, it could use all 3 of them before the next creature's turn. They would still have the same budget, but they could just splurge at once instead of dividing up between several turns, yes?

 

[xiphumor]

I believe it doesn't. My argument is that the original text is "The vampire can take 1 legendary action, choosing form the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn." If the vampire only ever had 1 legendary action, there would be no need to mention that only one could be used at a time. So the vampire can take a legendary action after three different creatures end their turns. It can't use all three at once.

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

What's the difference between that and how legendary actions already work? Under normal circumstances, a creature with legendary actions already can only take one legendary action after any given creature's turn.

 

[Nathaniel Lee]

Oh, never mind. I had no idea that the "standard" vampire only got a single legendary action per round. That completely took me by surprise.