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Hi All

This good question came up in a game tonight. In Holy Smite the first sentence of the spell says:

"You draw down holy power to smite your enemies."

Does that mean the spell only affects a caster's enemies? For instance, if a CN ally of the caster was caught in the Area of Effect, would they become affected by the spell?

I am leaning towards saying no, because they are not an enemy of the caster. It seems plain to me by the first sentence that only enemies and not other party members of the caster are affected.

What do you guys think? Is there something I am missing something here?

In High School we rotated the DM between about 3 of us. With one guy particualrly the DM. In Uni, I played and DMed as there were no shortage of games, but since then, in the last 10 years I have been a player more often.

I prefer to play as I have yet to take over any fantasy world I have played in lol (joke).

In the last 2 years, however, I have been a player 3 times and a DM twice including currently DMing a game and playing in another.

I am new to Pathfinder, having bought the books about 3 months ago and was new to D&D 3.5 when I picked it up late last year (the last time I played a long game of D&D was AD&D!). So I joined a game as a player so I could learn the rules quicker (I have read the rule book, but find I learn quicker if I put the rules into practice.) and learn how to play a class my party does not play or I have not played before. I picked a spell caster for this one, as it is handy knowing spells as a DM.

I am torn between whether I like DMing or playing better. I was offered to be a player in the game I DM when we converted to Pathfinder from 3.5 but knocked it back. I love building the world, drawing maps and all that.

I am still rusty as a DM, I was a good one back in the day (Well, so my friends told me), so I am slowly getting back into form. :) But no matter what I do, rpging is still the best!