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Can a PC forfeit their Dex and dodge bonuses to AC essentially making the Touch AC 10 (or about, based on other things they have)?
Dodge Bonuses: Dodge bonuses represent actively avoiding blows. Any situation that denies you your Dexterity bonus also denies you dodge bonuses. (Wearing armor, however, does not limit these bonuses the way it limits a Dexterity bonus to AC.) Unlike most sorts of bonuses, dodge bonuses stack with each other.
I am not going to be trying to dodge out of the way of his bomb that I know is going to be healing me.
I understand not being able to forfeit armor bonus (if that applied here)but I can't find anything saying you can't forfeit dex and dodge.
So can you?
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Huh, then could you use your dex and dodge bonuses as a bonus to the alchemists bomb throw as you are actively trying to get hit with it? :)
If you can voluntarily fail a will save, I don't know why you wouldn't be able to stand still to take a heal bomb in the face.
3) It's still a splash weapon and a bomb and it says Heal damage. so the int bonus and the level ups apply.
Not when healing his allies (or himself).
from d20 (so maybe not the same wording as book?)
Healing bomb
Benefit: When the alchemist creates a bomb, he can choose to have it heal damage instead of dealing it. Creating a healing bomb requires the alchemist to expend an infused extract or potion containing a cure spell. A creature that takes a direct hit from a healing bomb is healed as if she had imbibed the infusion or potion used to create the bomb. Creatures in the splash radius are healed for the minimum amount of damage the cure spell is capable of healing. A healing bomb damages undead instead of healing them.
I guess it would apply to undead (but I think you'd be better off with holy water).
It is not dealing "heal damage." It is healing damage (and this is the important part -->) instead of dealing damage. Hard to get more explicit than that.
A creature that takes a direct hit from a healing bomb is healed as if she had imbibed the infusion or potion used to create the bomb.It uses the dice of the potion/extract, not the bomb.
Precisely this. Instead of having one person drink a potion/infusion, you chuck it at a group of people. The person it hits is treated as having drank the potion/infusion (e.g., 1d8 + CL up to 5 for CLW). People in the splash radius are treated as if they drank the potion/infusion and rolled all 1s on the dice.
Precisely this. Instead of having one person drink a potion/infusion, you chuck it at a group of people. The person it hits is treated as having drank the potion/infusion (e.g., 1d8 + CL up to 5 for CLW). People in the splash radius are treated as if they drank the potion/infusion and rolled all 1s on the dice.A creature that takes a direct hit from a healing bomb is healed as if she had imbibed the infusion or potion used to create the bomb.It uses the dice of the potion/extract, not the bomb.
Has anyone said otherwise?
Has anyone said otherwise?Precisely this. Instead of having one person drink a potion/infusion, you chuck it at a group of people. The person it hits is treated as having drank the potion/infusion (e.g., 1d8 + CL up to 5 for CLW). People in the splash radius are treated as if they drank the potion/infusion and rolled all 1s on the dice.A creature that takes a direct hit from a healing bomb is healed as if she had imbibed the infusion or potion used to create the bomb.It uses the dice of the potion/extract, not the bomb.
There were questions or comments upthread about whether it would scale with level like regular bomb damage and whether it would also apply INT modifier like regular bombs typically do.
There were questions or comments upthread about whether it would scale with level like regular bomb damage and whether it would also apply INT modifier like regular bombs typically do.Has anyone said otherwise?Precisely this. Instead of having one person drink a potion/infusion, you chuck it at a group of people. The person it hits is treated as having drank the potion/infusion (e.g., 1d8 + CL up to 5 for CLW). People in the splash radius are treated as if they drank the potion/infusion and rolled all 1s on the dice.A creature that takes a direct hit from a healing bomb is healed as if she had imbibed the infusion or potion used to create the bomb.It uses the dice of the potion/extract, not the bomb.
Alchemists add their Int to any splash weapons, not just bombs. I agree those bonuses wouldn't apply to healing someone but I don't see why they wouldn't apply to damaging someone (undead or dhampir or whatever). It splashes and is still a bomb.
Edit: no one asked if it scaled by level (or at least not that I saw in my quick re-read thru) but whether a FCB of +1/2 levels would apply.
Alchemists add their Int to any splash weapons, not just bombs. I agree those bonuses wouldn't apply to healing someone but I don't see why they wouldn't apply to damaging someone (undead or dhampir or whatever). It splashes and is still a bomb.There were questions or comments upthread about whether it would scale with level like regular bomb damage and whether it would also apply INT modifier like regular bombs typically do.Has anyone said otherwise?Precisely this. Instead of having one person drink a potion/infusion, you chuck it at a group of people. The person it hits is treated as having drank the potion/infusion (e.g., 1d8 + CL up to 5 for CLW). People in the splash radius are treated as if they drank the potion/infusion and rolled all 1s on the dice.A creature that takes a direct hit from a healing bomb is healed as if she had imbibed the infusion or potion used to create the bomb.It uses the dice of the potion/extract, not the bomb.
It shouldn't affect undead by damaging them any differently than it affects living by healing them. The ability says it functions like you've used a potion, for both the living and the undead. Potions don't include INT modifiers to healing/damage.
Edit: no one asked if it scaled by level (or at least not that I saw in my quick re-read thru) but whether a FCB of +1/2 levels would apply.
It's not really a big deal, I was just helping to reinforce how the ability functions since there had been some confusion. There's a comment in the second post about the leveling up. I thought I saw another one in the OP, but realized I misread it the first time through. But again, I don't know that it really matters all that much.