Touch spells and touch abilities


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Assuming I hold the charge for somethign like bestow curse then follow up with an ability like say, touch fo chaos, will both effects be triggered at once? I'm referencing the part where it says that if I touch anythin the spell discharges.


TarkXT wrote:
Assuming I hold the charge for somethign like bestow curse then follow up with an ability like say, touch fo chaos, will both effects be triggered at once? I'm referencing the part where it says that if I touch anythin the spell discharges.

RAW they both discharge on the same touch.


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Touch Spells and Holding the Charge: In most cases, if you don't discharge a touch spell on the round you cast it, you can hold the charge (postpone the discharge of the spell) indefinitely. You can make touch attacks round after round until the spell is discharged. If you cast another spell, the touch spell dissipates.

I'd say that both would be discharged into the first target you hit if you had both of them in effect, but I wonder if this is even possible. Because Touch of Chaos is a spell-like ability, so would activating ToC also dissipate the Bestow Curse spell?


reefwood wrote:
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Touch Spells and Holding the Charge: In most cases, if you don't discharge a touch spell on the round you cast it, you can hold the charge (postpone the discharge of the spell) indefinitely. You can make touch attacks round after round until the spell is discharged. If you cast another spell, the touch spell dissipates.
I'd say that both would be discharged into the first target you hit if you had both of them in effect, but I wonder if this is even possible. Because Touch of Chaos is a spell-like ability, so would activating ToC also dissipate the Bestow Curse spell?

I was thinking Touch of Chaos was a supernatural ability, and not a spell, even though I did not look it up. If it is not a spell they can both be in affect.


It's a spell like. So its a bad example.

So what about something like say touch of tranquility?


TarkXT wrote:

It's a spell like. So its a bad example.

So what about something like say touch of tranquility?

As long as you are not trying to double up on spells it should work. Another no-go is doubling of the same poison on a blade. <---RD asked about this and it was answered by a developer.

A supernatural ability is not a spell though so it can stack with them.

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