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I want to know if kirin strike adds to the effective splash damage or not, specifically for the purposes of the sticky bomb discovery. It makes sense that you can't deal kirin strike damage with splash because it's not an attack roll, but the wording for kirin strike is " you can add twice your Intelligence modifier in damage". I feel like since it says "add" and "in damage" means that you just amp up the attacks damage, and don't deal separate damage, because in this case as well with a melee attack the irin strike damage wouldn't be subject to DR separate from the original attack. furthermore I think it's safe to assume that the extra damage you do is the same type as the original.

All that is important for the argument that kirin strike does add to the effective splash damage of a bomb because the wording for splash damage is: "so if the bomb would deal 2d6+4 points of fire damage on a direct hit, its splash damage would be 6 points of fire damage". So, based on the wording of both I assume the bomb would deal damage on a direct hit as follows: 2d6+4+INTx2 instead of 2d6+4 and INTx2 ("and" and + not being interchangeable here of course) basically symbolizing that the damage isn't separate. So if a bomb dealing 2d6+4 deals splash damage of 6, would that bomb with kirin strike EFFECTIVELY deal 6+INTx2 in splash damage? So would the splash damage for sticky bomb go up?

So hellknights of the Order of the gate or level 9 gain (as described int he class) Summon monster V-VII (level dependent) as a spell-like ability to summon devils of varying kinds. Which means that they can cast summon monster with a modified list, the summon good monster feat adds to that list. So I guess my question is if I'm a hellknight with the summon devil discipline, which gives you summon monster as an SLA, can I use the summon good monster feat to summon the monsters listed there? Or is that discipline ability different somehow even though in it's effect, I have Summon monster as an SLA?

In PFS a summoner can use his summon monster SLA as a standard action. THe Archives of Nethys says that it is a standard

Summon Devil (Sp): Once per day, as a standard action, a Hellknight can summon a single devil similarly to the spell summon monster. The devils a Hellknight can summon (and the Hellknight level at which he can summon them) are lemure (5th), imp (7th), bearded devil (9th), erinyes (11th), bone devil (13th), barbed devil (15th), ice devil (17th). (Order of the Gate)

However many of the abilities on that site for hellknight are not as they appear in PFS (they can summon bearded at 3rd, erinyes at 6th and bone devil at 9th in PFS.)

The rules for SLAs are:

Usually, a spell-like ability works just like the spell of that name. A spell-like ability has no verbal, somatic, or material component, nor does it require a focus. The user activates it mentally. Armor never affects a spell-like ability's use, even if the ability resembles an arcane spell with a somatic component.

A spell-like ability has a casting time of 1 standard action unless noted otherwise in the ability or spell description. In all other ways, a spell-like ability functions just like a spell.

So I can't tell. The spell does otherwise say that it's a full round but from what I can tell summon monster as an SlA is usually a standard, so is the Hellknight's summon a full round? And if it is a full round do I have to make a concentration check to continue casting if say I take damage, or the weather gets violent?