Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen

[Sir_Chivalry]

Cont A 67



This is incorrect, the gaze attack is used as an example of something Steely Resolve does not affect:



What if a gaze attack dealt damage? Since "a creature with a gaze attack can actively attempt to use its gaze as an attack action", it might count as an attack. The text excludes "special effects tied to an attack", but this seems to mean effects other than hit point damage. So steely resolve would probably apply against a gaze attack that dealt damage if it were "used actively as an attack action".

Other special abilities don't have this "as an attack action" clause though. Nothing suggests steely resolve uses a nonstandard definition of attack the way invisibility does.

Cont A 67

Right so would that mean that only damage otherwise tied to another creature attacking the crusader is able to be delayed in steely resolve?

No AoE, no burning auras, no falling damage, no self-inflicted stuff?

Trying to pin this down before my next session I'd hate to be playing dishonestly