Smite Evil and Low Charisma


Rules Questions

Lantern Lodge

Smite Evil adds a CHA bonus to your to-hit.
Celestial template creatures get Smite Evil as an ability. So if you summon a Celestial Dog (or Eagle , or Dolphin, etc.) it can use Smite Evil to get the extra damage (HD 1) but does it necessarily take the CHA penalty to hit?


Bonus is 0 or greater. So you'll never take a penalty for a low stat if it says bonus.


You gain a bonus is positive, penalty is negative. You only get the charisma bonus if it is a bonus, otherwise you get nothing.

So, no penalty.

-S

Lantern Lodge

Thank you.


Correct. Just leaving this here for clarification if anyone else wants to know.

Smite Evil:
Smite Evil (Su): Once per day, a paladin can call out to the powers of good to aid her in her struggle against evil. As a swift action, the paladin chooses one target within sight to smite. If this target is evil, the paladin adds her Charisma bonus (if any) to her attack rolls and adds her paladin level to all damage rolls made against the target of her smite. If the target of smite evil is an outsider with the evil subtype, an evil-aligned dragon, or an undead creature, the bonus to damage on the first successful attack increases to 2 points of damage per level the paladin possesses. Regardless of the target, smite evil attacks automatically bypass any DR the creature might possess.

In addition, while smite evil is in effect, the paladin gains a deflection bonus equal to her Charisma modifier (if any) to her AC against attacks made by the target of the smite. If the paladin targets a creature that is not evil, the smite is wasted with no effect.

The smite evil effect remains until the target of the smite is dead or the next time the paladin rests and regains her uses of this ability. At 4th level, and at every three levels thereafter, the paladin may smite evil one additional time per day, as indicated on Table: Paladin, to a maximum of seven times per day at 19th level.

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