Stance Duration (brain fart at work)

[Herschel]

I was chatting with a coworker who still plays 3.5 about 4E and he looked up some things. He said there was a few cool powers but one of the encounter powers used the keyword: Stance. He asked what it meant and I'm in the midst of running a report and was hit with a total brain fart.

HELP!

 

[Pyrex]

I don't have a page reference handy, but a Stance lasts until the end of the encounter or until you activate a different Stance.

 

[chitzk0i]

I think there's, like, one encounter stance... period. Definitely not one in the core books.

 

[comrade raoul]

Oh, it's in the core books! The stormwarden gets an encounter stance (+2 attack for -2 AC) as an encounter power.

 

[DragonXNIK]

Stance:

A stance power lasts until the end of the

encounter, for 5 minutes, or until you use another stance power.​

Page 55, PHB, under keywords.

A stance gives you various benefits for the entire encounter, thematically, fighters in particular have a number of powerful utility powers that are stances, and cause 1[W] damage to adjacent opponents automatically.

​

 

[Herschel]

Sweet. Thanks all.

 

[DracoSuave]

It's mostly a Martial thing, tho there are a couple non-martial Stances, they're more of a rarity.

 

[ppaladin123]

It's mostly a Martial thing, tho there are a couple non-martial Stances, they're more of a rarity.

swordmages also have a bunch of them. I really want a double stance feat.

 

[DracoSuave]

Damn those swordmages, teleporting their way into everything! I was across the room I swear!