Channel Smite and Command Undead. PFS.

[bigrig107]

Can Command Undead be used to qualify for, and function with, Channel Smite?

[bigrig107]

Or even a life Oracle's channeling ability?

[Starglim]

Life oracle - Yes

Do you mean the necromancer wizard's Power Over Undead? The wizard can only use his channels to activate either Command Undead or Turn Undead, so even if a GM allowed it to qualify, it would be no use to him as he couldn't spend a channel to activate Channel Smite.

[bigrig107]

Actually, Starglim, I mean the Bones Oracle's Command Undead feat.
But it's basically the same thing.

Could I not command through Channel Smite?

This brings up the question: do variant channeling abilities not function?

[Starglim]

bigrig107 wrote:

Actually, Starglim, I mean the Bones Oracle's Command Undead feat.

But it's basically the same thing.

Could I not command through Channel Smite?

I agree, the Bones oracle's Undead Servitude has the same limitation and same problem as the necromancer's ability. No, you could not use a single channel both to Command Undead and to Channel Smite.

bigrig107 wrote:

This brings up the question: do variant channeling abilities not function?

The question seems ambiguous. edit(2): I don't see a problem with a cleric with variant channelling taking and using Channel Smite. If she did, a Channel Smite would have its full effect and would not apply the variant channel effect. A Bones oracle can't use variant channelling because she can't use a channel to harm the living.