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<blockquote data-quote="dcollins" data-source="post: 16877" data-attributes="member: 876">I guess I'll throw out three other things. In short, you should realize that as you described it in the original post, that alleged turn for &quot;Nightscale&quot; in FoF is not strictly legal.(a) You cannot just decide to replace a standard action with a partial action. See PH p. 127, 1st sentence under &quot;Partial Actions&quot;. The clever way to get around this limitation in a normal turn is to &quot;move&quot;, then &quot;ready&quot; (which can be a partial action), then trigger a &quot;partial charge&quot;.(b) With regard to the preceding, the trigger for the readied action can't just be &quot;anything, no matter what&quot;, it needs to be specific (PH p. 134).(c) It's not in the core rulebooks, but, to avoid exactly this abuse, the Sage has ruled that any &quot;move-ready-partial charge&quot; must all be in a single straight line, as if it were a normal charge. See the Official D&amp;D FAQ for more on this. In short, the move in one direction and partial charge in another by &quot;Nightscale&quot; is against the rules.Edit: To say nothing of the fact that in a charge, it would only get a single attack, not a full bite/claw/claw/wing attack (per MM p. 7, bottom of 1st column). Man, the more I look at it, the more messed up that example is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dcollins, post: 16877, member: 876"] I guess I'll throw out three other things. In short, you should realize that as you described it in the original post, that alleged turn for "Nightscale" in FoF is not strictly legal. (a) You cannot just decide to replace a standard action with a partial action. See PH p. 127, 1st sentence under "Partial Actions". The clever way to get around this limitation in a normal turn is to "move", then "ready" (which can be a partial action), then trigger a "partial charge". (b) With regard to the preceding, the trigger for the readied action can't just be "anything, no matter what", it needs to be specific (PH p. 134). (c) It's not in the core rulebooks, but, to avoid exactly this abuse, the Sage has ruled that any "move-ready-partial charge" must all be in a single straight line, as if it were a normal charge. See the Official D&D FAQ for more on this. In short, the move in one direction and partial charge in another by "Nightscale" is against the rules. Edit: To say nothing of the fact that in a charge, it would only get a single attack, not a full bite/claw/claw/wing attack (per MM p. 7, bottom of 1st column). Man, the more I look at it, the more messed up that example is. [/QUOTE]

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