Hello everybody,
There's already been a long thread about the interaction of this two features, so I won't get into that; let's just say that the summoned creatures don't use the same ability as the paladins.
What I'm wondering is that smite evil normally adds the charisma bonus to the attack rolls against the chosen creature.
Most summoned creatures have a charisma inferior to 10, for example the leopard has 6, does this mean that I should actually take a -2 to attack rolls when using the smite evil ability?
That doesn't make sense to me.
Thanks in advance for your help !
You do not take a penalty. The smite ability says you add the bonus. That matters because some abilities say you add the modifier. If it says bonus you ignore negative modifiers. If it says modifiers then a negative modifier may not work in your favor.
The celestial smite also does not automatically bypass DR.
That was short and to the point, thanks a lot ;)