Radiant Charge and Damage Multipliers.


Rules Questions


Alright, rules for Radiant Charge (Bolded emphasis mine):

Radiant Charge:
When you charge, you do so with the power of faith.

Prerequisites: Lay on hands class feature.

Benefit: When you hit with a charge attack, you can expend all of your remaining uses of lay on hands to deal extra damage equal to 1d6 per use of lay on hands expended + your Charisma bonus. This damage comes from holy power and is not subject to damage reduction, energy immunities, or energy resistances.

With a Lance on Horseback and/or a Critical Hit, I know you don't multiply the additional damage dice, but how about the additional Charisma Bonus Damage? And why not? I took a look at the "Multiplying Damage" rules in the combat section, and nothing really jumped out at me.


The additional Charisma damage is "joined at the hip" to the damage dice from the ability. Say, for example, you have 3 uses of LoH remaining and +5 Cha bonus. The bonus damage dice for Radiant Charge will be (3d6+5) taken as a single unit. If your weapon damage is 1d8 and you get +10 from various damage bonuses, then your "whole" weapon damage dice is (1d8+10). In other words, the +Cha is a part of the {remaining_LoH}d6 damage dice.


Ah, okay. And Therefore it doesn't get multiplied. Thank you very much!

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