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Legendary actions

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Legendary actions are a type of resource available to some characters while in Honour mode. A character with a legendary action will have an associated passive and condition - while the condition is active, the character can use their legendary action. Once per round,[note 1] a character may use their legendary action, often as a reaction to being dealt damage. Legendary actions restore at the beginning of a new round.

While in Tactician, dragons will also have legendary actions available.

List of legendary actions

See Category:Legendary actions for a list, or Category:Honour mode for Honour exclusive content.

Act One

Character Action
Legendary Action: Weird Magic Surge Legendary Action: Weird Magic Surge
Once per round, Auntie Ethel can spend a Legendary Action to summon more illusory duplicates and shuffle herself among them after a spell is cast.
Legendary Action: Leaping Static Legendary Action: Leaping Static
Once per round, Bernard can spend a Legendary Action to immediately launch Leaping Static Leaping Static at a foe after being attacked.
Legendary Action: Shredding Scales Legendary Action: Shredding Scales
Once per turn, the Bulette can spend a Legendary Action to use Shredding Scales Shredding Scales after being hit if its Diamond Scales Diamond Scales are active.
Arachnid Compulsion Arachnid Compulsion
Take control of nearby spiders with a borrowed piece of drow magic.
Legendary Action: Devoted Galvanism Legendary Action: Devoted Galvanism
Once per round when an enemy targets their ally with an ability, Dror Ragzlin can use a Legendary Action to Galvanise Galvanise Absolutists within 5 m / 17 ft, granting them Action Surge Action Surge.
Legendary Action: Adamantine Reverberation Legendary Action: Adamantine Reverberation
Once per round, Grym can use its Legendary Action to Reverberate Reverberate when it is struck, doubling its movement and granting it 10 temporary hit points.
Legendary Action: Mind-Claw of Tu'narath Legendary Action: Mind-Claw of Tu'narath
Twice per round, Inquisitor W'wargaz can spend a Legendary Action to summon a Mind-Claw of Tu'narath after he or his allies are struck.
Legendary Action: Psionic Visage Legendary Action: Psionic Visage
Once per round, Nere can use his Legendary Action to cast Psionic Visage Psionic Visage on himself when attacked.
Legendary Action: Call Consort Legendary Action: Call Consort
Once per combat, the Owlbear mother can spend a Legendary Action to summon summon her mate when she is attacked.
Legendary Action: Gossamer Tomb Legendary Action: Gossamer Tomb
Once per round if her offspring is attacked, the Phase Spider Matriarch can spend a Legendary Action to use Gossamer Tomb Gossamer Tomb.
Legendary Action: Ocular Nightmare Legendary Action: Ocular Nightmare
After accumulating five Paranoid Dreams Paranoid Dreams, the Spectator will spend a Legendary Action to cast Ocular Nightmare Ocular Nightmare.

Act Two

Character Action
Legendary Action: Gaze of the Dead Legendary Action: Gaze of the Dead
Once per round, Myrkul's Apostle can spend a Legendary Action to cast Gaze of the Dead Gaze of the Dead on a creature when attacked.
Legendary Action: The Dead Wastes Legendary Action: The Dead Wastes
Once per round when a creature dies, Balthazar can use his Legendary Action to create a necrotic miasma where it fell that heals Undead 4d6hit points and deals 4d6Damage TypesNecrotic to living creatures at the start of their turns.
Legendary Action: Spectral Aspect Legendary Action: Spectral Aspect
Once per round, Balthazar can use his Legendary Action to adopt a Spectral Aspect Spectral Aspect after being struck.
Legendary Action: Sublimation Legendary Action: Sublimation
Once per round, Gerringothe Thorm can spend a Legendary Action to try and turn her enemies into gold, incapacitating them for 4 turns, when she loses a piece of armour.
Legendary Action: Tu'narath's Embrace Legendary Action: Tu'narath's Embrace
Once per round, Ch'r'ai Har'rak can spend a Legendary Action to cast Tu'narath's Embrace Tu'narath's Embrace on an ally to prevent an Incapacitating Condition.
Legendary Action: Soul Sacrifice Legendary Action: Soul Sacrifice
Once per round when a humanoid dies, the Ch'r'ai can spend a legendary action to Sacrifice Sacrifice its soul to Vlaakith in return for great power. Once 3 souls have been sacrificed, the Ch'r'ai takes on Vlaakith's Undying Aspect Vlaakith's Undying Aspect.
Legendary Action: Hordestrike Legendary Action: Hordestrike
Once per round, Ketheric can spend a Legendary Action to Hordestrike Hordestrike an enemy when it is attacked by one of his minions following Deadly Orders Deadly Orders.
Legendary Action: Wail of Loss Legendary Action: Wail of Loss
Once per round, Malus Thorm can use his Legendary Action after being attacked to make every assistant cast Wail of Loss Wail of Loss simultaneously.
Legendary Action: Grasping Appendage Legendary Action: Grasping Appendage
Once per round, Malus Thorm can use his Legendary Action to Grasp Grasp a creature and pull it closer.
Legendary Action: Fanatic Retaliation Legendary Action: Fanatic Retaliation
Once per round when a Spindleweb Fanatic Spindleweb Fanatic is killed, Kar'niss can use a Legendary Action to possibly deal 6d10Damage TypesPsychic and Silence Silence the attacker.
Legendary Action: Vengeful Playmate Legendary Action: Vengeful Playmate
Once per round, Oliver can spend a Legendary Action to summon The Wasting Quiet The Wasting Quiet in an area after a summoned shadow is slain.
Legendary Action: Wretched Growth Legendary Action: Wretched Growth
If a creature ends its turn within 5 m / 17 ft of the Shambling Mound, it will take 3d10Damage TypesNecrotic and Shadow-Cursed Vines will grow at its feet, possibly Entangling Entangling it.
Legendary Action: Overflowing Brew Legendary Action: Overflowing Brew
Once per round, Thisobald Thorm can use his Legendary Action when his brew is changed by a foe's attack to make it overflow, dealing +1d6 of the corresponding damage type.
Legendary Action: Blinding Ambush Legendary Action: Blinding Ambush
Once per round, Yurgir can spend a Legendary Action to Blinding Ambush Blinding Ambush a Hunted Hunted creature when it attempts to attack or cast a spell.

Act Three

Character Action
Legendary Action: Bhaal's Edict Legendary Action: Bhaal's Edict
If Orin has not used her Legendary Action by the end of a round, and Orin is not duelling her opponent alone, the Dread Lord places a creature under Bhaal's Edict Bhaal's Edict.
Legendary Action: Vampiric Swarm Legendary Action: Vampiric Swarm
Once per round, Cazador can spend a Legendary Action to conjure a Vampiric Swarm Vampiric Swarm.
Karsite Grip Karsite Grip
Crush a creature's being with pure Netherese energy that can fork across to three other targets within 8 m / 27 ft.
Legendary Action: Tyrannical Branding Legendary Action: Tyrannical Branding
Once per round, Gortash can use his Legendary Action to immediately Brand Brand his attacker after being struck.
Legendary Action: Torrential Undeath Legendary Action: Torrential Undeath
Once per turn, Mystic Carrion can use his Legendary Action to release Torrential Undeath Torrential Undeath at his foes when hit.
Legendary Action: Sanguine Lash Legendary Action: Sanguine Lash
Once per round, Orin can use her Legendary Action to Sanguine Lash Sanguine Lash after being attacked.
Legendary Action: Ptarian Dogma Legendary Action: Ptarian Dogma
Once per round, after being hit, Ptaris can spend a Legendary Action to surround his attacker in Ptarian Pacifism Ptarian Pacifism.
Legendary Action: Beguiling Rebuke Legendary Action: Beguiling Rebuke
Raphael can spend a Legendary Action to immediately Beguile Beguile a hostile creature and its allies after being attacked.
Legendary Action: Soul Ascension Legendary Action: Soul Ascension
Raphael can spend a Legendary Action to immediately cast Soul Ascension Soul Ascension when he or his allies are attacked.
Legendary Action: Murderous Retort Legendary Action: Murderous Retort
Once per round, Orin or Sarevok can use their Legendary Action to immediately strike back at their attacker.
Legendary Action: Sanctuary of Loss Legendary Action: Sanctuary of Loss
Once per round, Viconia can use a Legendary Action to cast Sanctuary of Loss Sanctuary of Loss when an ally is struck.
Legendary Action: Heartwrench Legendary Action: Heartwrench
Once per round, Viconia can use a Legendary Action to Heartwrench Heartwrench a Heartform Mapped Heartform Mapped creature after it strikes her or her allies.

Dragons

While all other legendary actions are exclusive to Honour mode, dragons will have legendary actions available while in Tactician. As a legendary action, dragons can react to being attacked with their breath weapon:

Character Action
Legendary Action: Draconic Wrath Legendary Action: Draconic Wrath
The dragon can retaliate against an attacker with its breath weapon once per round.
Legendary Action: Bhaal's Edict Legendary Action: Bhaal's Edict
If Orin has not used her Legendary Action by the end of a round, and Orin is not duelling her opponent alone, the Dread Lord places a creature under Bhaal's Edict Bhaal's Edict.

Notes

  1. Inquisitor W'wargaz may use their Legendary Action: Mind-Claw of Tu'narath twice per round. Gerringothe Thorm may use her legendary action as many times per round as pieces of armour are destroyed. Raphael may use legendary actions as many times per round as there are remaining soul pillars.