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During the last play session I ran my Level 1 Oracle at (Additional Revelation- Life Link and Channel, Tongues (Infernal))- we had a combat in which one of the party members was on a ledge over us, but was crying out in pain (taking damage while solo'ing a cave fisher).
Life Link (Su): As a standard action, you may create a bond between yourself and another creature. Each round at the start of your turn, if the bonded creature is wounded for 5 or more hit points below its maximum hit points, it heals 5 hit points and you take 5 hit points of damage. You may have one bond active per oracle level. This bond continues until the bonded creature dies, you die, the distance between you and the other creature exceeds medium range, or you end it as an immediate action (if you have multiple bonds active, you may end as many as you want as part of the same immediate action).
I did not have line of sight on the target, but he was within the 100' medium range (the ceiling was 40' above us; assuming 20' additional rock for thickness, and an additional 15' for XY). Was he a legal target for my life link, considering he had total cover?
Follow up question: If not- how would you deal with a Life Link/Clouded Vision Oracle setting up a Life Link with someone more than 30 feet away?
-- S.
Line of Effect: A line of effect is a straight, unblocked path that indicates what a spell can affect. A line of effect is canceled by a solid barrier. It's like line of sight for ranged weapons, except that it's not blocked by fog, darkness, and other factors that limit normal sight.
You must have a clear line of effect to any target that you cast a spell on or to any space in which you wish to create an effect. You must have a clear line of effect to the point of origin of any spell you cast.
Supernatural Abilities (Su): Supernatural abilities are magical but not spell-like. Supernatural abilities are not subject to spell resistance and do not function in areas where magic is suppressed or negated (such as an antimagic field). A supernatural ability's effect cannot be dispelled and is not subject to counterspells. See Table: Special Ability Types for a summary of the types of special abilities.
You need LOE for spells to work. Life link is a Su which is specifically not spell like. I would say you need LOE but not LOS for the action to setup lifelink. That means barriers block it, but darkness or fog does not.
Normally, my life oracle sets up his life link at the beginning of the day/adventure. You are level 1, so you only get 1 link though.
As long as you are within medium range and familiar with the target I believe you can make the link. If you are worried about hard cover, I will point out that the effect does not care if there is a whole city between you and the life link partner, as long as you are within medium range.
With clouded Vision, you can still hear, you can still make a link. I do not see a line of sight or line of effect restriction in the ability at all.
The ability may not require LoS or even LoE during its course but designating a target still requires that you can target it. If you target a creature at the beginning of your day, and it goes invisible that doesn't break the link as it was already in effect. If you tried to target an invisible creature your link would fail as you don't have a target to give the effect to (as it requires a creature to target not an area with a creature in it).
LoS and LoE can be tricky and cause some odd things to happen occasionally.
Long story short, you would still need to target he creature you want to give the effect to as pointed out above. If you cannot target it (either by being out of range of sight or complete cover) it isn't "valid" so the ability would "poof" with no effect.