In the few campaigns I have been with previously, channel energy always required a fortitude save. I never questioned it because this made sense to me, being an energy effect closely associated with the body, healing, and the forces of life and death. Your will-power doesn't seems as appropriate to me. Is there any reason that this is? was an effect like this a fortitude save previously? Is it an alright houserule to change the save-type?
You are probably talking about using channel energy to damage undead, I guess. Well there's your answer: undead are immune to effects that require a fortitude save (unless the effect can also affect objects). So, if channel energy would take a fortitude save, undead would be immune to it.
I think it should stay as a will save for simplicity. That way undead and the living are not working off of two different saves. If undead have to make fort saves per a house rule then they will fail to often and the ability becomes stronger than it was supposed to be against them.
That's fair. I hadn't considered that implication before. I know we were playing pathfinder, but my groups were always of mixed RPG background, so there were a lot of strange ideas floating around masquerading as rules.
That's fair. I hadn't considered that implication before. I know we were playing pathfinder, but my groups were always of mixed RPG background, so there were a lot of strange ideas floating around masquerading as rules.
Hmmm...
Magnu...horse with golden mane?
