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.
Some touch spells allow you to touch multiple targets as part of the spell. You can't hold the charge of such a spell; you must touch all targets of the spell in the same round that you finish casting the spell.
Most spells you would ever want to use this for have the range listed as touch. What if you have a spell that doesn't have the range listed, but has the target listed as "<something> touched"? I think this should still be ok, but a friend of mine pointed me to the difference when I was discussing a potential build with him and I wanted to check and be sure.
Thanks
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.
Some touch spells allow you to touch multiple targets as part of the spell. You can't hold the charge of such a spell; you must touch all targets of the spell in the same round that you finish casting the spell.
Most spells you would ever want to use this for have the range listed as touch. What if you have a spell that doesn't have the range listed, but has the target listed as "<something> touched"? I think this should still be ok, but a friend of mine pointed me to the difference when I was discussing a potential build with him and I wanted to check and be sure.
Thanks
Could you please give some example of a spell that has range other than touch and target: touched creature/object?
Target is touch, but there is no range listed, which is I think how many people define a "touch spell".
Abundant Ammunition
School conjuration (summoning); Level bard 1, cleric 1, ranger 1, sorcerer/wizard 1CASTING
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M/DF (a single piece of ammunition)EFFECT
Target one container touched
Duration 1 minute/level
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
This is one of errors occurring in Ultimate Combat (and Ultimate Magic as well) - some spell entries are incomplete missing required lines (range, I think there were some spells that missed casting time or components).
In this case (and similar cases where range line is missing but the target specifies a touched target) it should be safe to assume the range line was intended to be touch (only touch ranged spells have creature/object touched as their targets), qualifying such spells as touch ranged and viable for holding the charge.
I didn't think it should be a problem, but did want to get some outside input. Thanks