Targeted Bomb Admixture + Stink Bomb

[DRD1812]

Here's the question: If an alchemist is under the effects of Targeted Bomb Admixture, what is the interaction with Stink Bomb? Does it keep Stink Bomb from creating a cloud? Does the cloud only affect the target? Is the cloud as large as the one a non-admixture bomb would have created?

This ruling has implications for Plague Bomb and Smoke Bomb as well.

Here are the rules in play:

Targeted Bomb Admixture: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/t/targeted-bomb-admixture

Stink Bomb: http://tinyurl.com/lc2zodz

[Zwordsman]

Hmm.. its a weird interaction but.

I want to say that it'll still have it's area affect.
the cloud isn't a splash effect it just uses the base splash's to figure out the measurements of the cloud

[Zwordsman]

Oh, i actually read it this time.
It says specifically that it doesn't affect discoveries used to modify your bombs. So nope it won't limit stink bomb

this brings up a point about.. does it affect a frost or force bomb? or can you not tdo it for anything but the base fire bomb?

[Rhatahema]

The extract states that your bombs "do not splash", which means the bomb has no splash radius, which is the area that determines the area of the fog cloud formed by the smoke bomb line of discoveries. That would be a simple answer, but then there's the line:

"This effect on your magical reserve has no effect on any discoveries that you use to modify your bombs..."

Which doesn't seem entirely true. Explosive bombs aren't going to splash out to 10ft if they don't splash at all. Sticky Bomb raises a similar question. If the bomb doesn't splash, does it still have splash damage to be applied by sticky bomb? If so, do you add twice your intelligence modifier to that splash damage?

At any rate, it either nullifies the cloud entirely, or the cloud is created entirely as normal. There's nothing that suggests the cloud would affect only a single target or have a reduced area.

[Zwordsman]

I'm pretty sure it has no effect when you apply any discovery. That one line is pretty specific on how it interacts with other discoveries; it won't interact. Which is pretty nifty actually..
It's nice to be able to use a focused fire blast, then switch to force sonic or ice to make large hits again.. man I love that extract more now.