Healing thru Turning Smite Feat?

[sysane]

This may be a dumb question, but can you heal through this feat?

Say if a cleric channeled a turn through a missile weapon and shot a creature he perceived as undead but wasn't. Would the creature instead be healed those hit points it would have otherwise taken as positive energy damage?

[golem101]

I would rule no. A smite attempt (even if performed by a cleric who channels positive energy) is something aimed at damaging an enemy.
So, a non-undead (ehrm) creature hit by a smite, would suffer normal damage from the weapon/missile, while the smite power-up is simply lost.

There seems however to be some confusion about positive energy channeling, and it would need some more extensive explanation about what's possible and what's not.

[Thraxus]

sysane wrote:

This may be a dumb question, but can you heal through this feat?

Say if a cleric channeled a turn through a missile weapon and shot a creature he perceived as undead but wasn't. Would the creature instead be healed those hit points it would have otherwise taken as positive energy damage?

For that matter, can you intentionally use it to heal a single ally? I would say no, but the rules are not clear.

[Volsung]

By the way the feat is written I would say "no". However, given how positive/negative enery channeling works I think it would be thematically appropriate to allow it. I also don't think that allowing would create any real mechanical imbalance.