Grippli Agile Tongue with channel smite

[Red-Assassin]

Will this work?

Channel Smite (Combat)
You can channel your divine energy through a melee weapon you wield.

Prerequisite: Channel energy class feature.

Benefit: Before you make a melee attack roll, you can choose to spend one use of your channel energy ability as a swift action. If you channel positive energy and you hit an undead creature, that creature takes an amount of additional damage equal to the damage dealt by your channel positive energy ability. If you channel negative energy and you hit a living creature, that creature takes an amount of additional damage equal to the damage dealt by your channel negative energy ability. Your target can make a Will save, as normal, to halve this additional damage. If your attack misses, the channel energy ability is still expended with no effect.

With this.

Agile Tongue (Grippli)
Your long pink tongue is capable of manipulating small items and even stealing objects.
Prerequisites: Grippli.

Benefit: You have a prehensile tongue with a range of 10 feet. You can pick up items weighing no more than 5 pounds, make Sleight of Hand checks, perform the steal or disarm combat maneuvers, or make melee touch attacks with your tongue.

I basically thinking of having a weak str cleric that will be able to hit and do minimum damage with a channeled smite.

[insaneogeddon]

Are natural weapons melee weapons?

Paizo says yes!

Beware DMs that focus on the world 'wield' to much. That was pretty much the argument against natural weapons being melee weapons that has already been ruled against.

(PS - cool race, bout time the chide of the Batrachi -creator race- had some love)

[Red-Assassin]

thanks insane !

[Martiln]

Channel Smite requires a melee attack, which means it only works if you're using an attack action against the creature, and it does extra damage=your channel energy damage(will save for half).

The Agile Tongue feat allows you to use melee touch attacks with your tongue, which is only useful if you hold the charge on a spell or some other similar ability.

Now unless you're using the aforementioned ability, and discharging a touch spell(or similar ability)with your tongue, then channel smite won't work with the feat, because it calls it out as being "extra damage" which means if you're using your tongue and doing no damage to begin with, then you can't get the extra damage from channel smite.

[blackbloodtroll]

Does Channel Smite work with Combat Maneuvers?

[Martiln]

blackbloodtroll wrote:

Does Channel Smite work with Combat Maneuvers?

It should work with trip, since that's the only maneuver I can think of where your weapon would come into contact with the targeted creature. Sunder and Disarm target items, and items aren't subject to channel smite.

[insaneogeddon]

If you dip monk or get unarmed strike (or worship iori to get it free ; ) should be no issue.