Shaped Splash


Round 3: Alchemist and Inquisitor


One of my players decided to come up with this feat.

Shaped Splash
Prerequisites:Base Attack Bonus +1
Benefit: You can choose not to deal splash damage to specified creatures that occupy spaces adjacent to your main target.

I decided to take it and allow it for use in my campaign with a Alchemist and it turned out rather well. It solved a lot of the playtesting issues we've had with hitting party members. I don't know if it should be just left as a feat for all races, or made a discovery, or even a bonus feat at low level for the class in general. Either way, it definitely helped, a lot.


actually what you have proposed is more like selective splash... and I would make that a BAB +4 or 6

shaped splash should turn your splash into a cone eminating from the target square. say 3 square cone (15') with bab +1 as a requirement

Dark Archive

Races of Eberron had a Shaped Splash feat with the prereqs of Halfling, Dex 13 and +1 BAB that allowed not only the ability to not damage adjacent allies, but also allowed the thrower to inflict full damage to one adjacent target.

Given that your version only allows the user to avoid harming allies, it seems fine, balance-wise.

Sovereign Court

I hate the idea personally at least not without a caster level as a prerequisite. Its entirely too gamist for my taste, somehow you've mastered the art to throw liquid at a guy in a way that it splashes on two other guys and a third behind him but not the guy in between the two or the guy beside the third? I hated the feat from eberron as well and when I took it as a player I re-wrote it so that I could only exclude an entire side from splash damage, not individual squares.

Personally what I wouldn't mind seeing are two feats, one that allows you to deal no splash damage if you choose, and one that allows you to exclude one side from splash damage. Neither of these requires a caster level, then the feat you suggested would be a feat that requires a caster level and the feat that allows you to exclude a side as a pre-req.

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