Smite Evil Question

[Hcazar]

In the Core Rulebook it has Smite Evil (Paladin) as a swift action; does that mean I can use that and attack and then attack again as my standard action or does that count as my full standard action?

[James Priebnow]

It does not allow an extra attack. When you activate the Smite, you choose the target which is the swift action. From that point forward you gain the bonuses to hit, damage, and AC against that target. This lasts until the target is dead / destroyed, the paladin rests, or (if they are high enough level) decides to Smite something else.

[Malachi Silverclaw]

James Priebnow wrote:

It does not allow an extra attack. When you activate the Smite, you choose the target which is the swift action. From that point forward you gain the bonuses to hit, damage, and AC against that target. This lasts until the target is dead / destroyed, the paladin rests, or (if they are high enough level) decides to Smite something else.

Not the third one.

Quote:

The smite evil effect remains until the target of the smite is dead or the next time the paladin rests and regains her uses of this ability.

So if you have more than one smite/day you could have both going at the same time targeting two different creatures.

[Darth Grall]

Malachi Silverclaw wrote:

So if you have more than one smite/day you could have both going at the same time targeting two different creatures.

Funnily enough I only just discovered this myself when a Paladin player decided to use it and such. A very cool and legitimate thing to do in a fight where a Paladin is getting overwhelmed by evil creatures.