Necromatic Affinity + Chill Touch

[Raef13]

Necromatic Affinity allows you to act as if you are undead when dealing with negative and positive energy. So what about spells like Chill Touch which do negative energy damage but have a special effect vs undead. All the feat says is that you are counted as undead for being healed and being harmed not for any other effects being related to being undead. What do you guys think?

[Samasboy1]

The feat actually says

Necromantic Affinity wrote:

You gain a +2 bonus on saving throws made to resist spells and effects that utilize negative energy, cause negative levels, or cause ability damage, ability drain, or ability penalties. In addition, damage caused by inflict spells heals you as if you were an undead creature, but you also take damage from cure spells.

While Chill Touch uses negative energy, it is not an inflict spell. So strictly RAW, you would still take damage.

Conversely, a Paladin's Lay on Hands is positive energy, but no a cure spell so it should heal you.

If you want to extend the feat's affect to be more general, then I would suggest the following.

You don't take damage of any type from Chill Touch (perhaps even healed by it), but since you aren't undead you can't be panicked either.

[Raef13]

Thanks.