Channel Energy to heal --- Does it affect ALL living creatures?

[Razz]

I noticed the wording to Channeling Energy for healing living creatures and...it states it heals ALL of them. Does this include enemies, also?

If so, my gaming group is in for a surprise (and a possible-soon-to-be angry Favored Soul). If this is true, I guess Selective Channeling feat has a better meaning other than for Negative Channel Energy.

[riatin]

Razz wrote:

I noticed the wording to Channeling Energy for healing living creatures and...it states it heals ALL of them. Does this include enemies, also?

If so, my gaming group is in for a surprise (and a possible-soon-to-be angry Favored Soul). If this is true, I guess Selective Channeling feat has a better meaning other than for Negative Channel Energy.

Yep, heals anything within the radius that would be healed by Positive Energy, including enemies.

[Bomanz]

All. Including bad guys. If your party has a lot of druid/wizard/ranger/whatever pets/companions, this is an awesome side effect, as long as you don't hit the bad guy too.

[Ice Titan]

Sometimes it rezzes monsters that are in shallow negative hitpoints. It's useful to make sure what monsters are dead-dead, especially later in the game when it's even more likely a good cleric could rez anyone from -20 hit points on an average roll.