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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 3:42PM
#41
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Date Joined:
Nov 23, 2003
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In other unrelated news, Twin Strike can be up to 4 damage instances. After all, you can target two targets, and attack each one twice.
IoW: yeah, the RAW seems to violate any likely RAI pretty badly. Moving on now. Likely RAI for twin strike is that it's two damage instances max... you just choose to split them or not. RAI for Inevitable Strike is most likely that it's a reroll. RAW for either is messed up ... but there's hopefully enough ambiguity for the DM to feel justified in making the correct call.
"Nice assumptions. Completely wrong assumptions, but by jove if being incorrect stopped people from making idiotic statements, we wouldn't have modern internet subculture." Kerrus
Practical gameplay runs by neither RAW or RAI, but rather "A Compromise Between The Gist Of The Rule As I Recall Getting The Impression Of It That One Time I Read It And What Jerry Says He Remembers, Whatever, We'll Look It Up Later If Any Of Us Still Give A Damn." Erachima
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 4:03PM
#42
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Inevitable Strike applies to one [melee weapon] attack roll.
Twin Strike lets you make two attacks, hence two attack rolls. You can use Inevitable Strike with Twin Strike but it only applies to one of the attacks...
Seems to me like the same interpretation wether it is RAW or RAI.
The main and original question here though I believe was how the roll was made regarding the trigger... RAW is ambiguous (as CS confirmed).
In the light of RAI, in my campaign I ruled it as the trigger being before the attack roll for the triggering attack.
If the player wants to use Inevitable Strike with a certain attack power he has to declare it before making the attack roll for that attack. Instead of the normal (one) roll he makes two rolls (if one hits the attack hits, if both hit it deals extra damage). If he wants to use it with a multi-attack power he can only use it with one of the attacks and must declare before the rolls to which one it applies.
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