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Would a Boggard sorcerer be able to deliver his touch spells with his tongue?

Attack: Tongue –1 touch (sticky tongue)

Sticky Tongue (Ex)

A creature hit by a boggard's tongue attack cannot move more than 10 feet away from the boggard and takes a –2 penalty to AC as long as the tongue is attached (this penalty does not stack if multiple tongues are attached). The tongue can be removed by making an opposed Strength check as a standard action or by dealing 2 points of slashing damage to the tongue (AC 11, damage does not deplete the boggard's actual hit points). The boggard cannot move more than 10 feet away from the target, but the boggard can release its tongue as a free action. Unlike a giant frog, a boggard cannot pull targets toward it with its tongue.

I think it would be a great bad guy/shaman. Do you think this would be 'kosher'? It is listed as a touch attack.

Also - the attack line shows:

Melee morningstar +5 (1d8+3), tongue –1 touch (sticky tongue)

I take this to mean that using a combined weapon attack with a natural attack, the tongue suffers a -5 to hit, rather then suffering a -5 to hit for a non-primary natural attack (if that was the case, it would be -6 to hit... -5 for non-primary, -5 for combining it with a weapon attack).


It seems to me this would work. I'm not sure if you could make the tongue deliver the spell on the same round you cast it, though, just like you'd have to wait to deliver a touch spell with an unarmed strike.

Still, the Long Limbs aberrant bloodline power would really increase the tongue attack range, whether it was to deliver a touch attack spell or just to use the Sticky Tongue ability. The power doesn't specifically state spells only, just melee touch attacks. At level 17 that tongue could hit opponents 25 feet away.

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