| Grimwäär |
Sorcerous Strike (Combat)
The power flowing through your veins also flows through your unarmed strike.
Prerequisite: Sorcerer bloodline class feature, Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: When you gain this feat, you choose one bloodline power that you can use to affect a single opponent. If you make a successful unarmed strike against an opponent, in addition to dealing your unarmed strike damage, you can spend a swift action to deliver the effects of the chosen bloodline power to that opponent. Doing so provokes no attacks of opportunity.
So my question for this would be, what powers qualify? I'm new to DMing, new to table top RPGs in general, and I have a player who wants to play an unnarmed draconic sorcerer. Neither of us are sure if he can choose to use the breath weapon with the feat tho. I guess it comes down to how you interpret the first sentence of the under benefit.
you choose one bloodline power that you can use to affect a single opponent.
I can see two interpretations, the first is your power HAS to affect only a single target IE Laughing touch from the fey bloodline, and the other is that it CAN affect a single target, IE the breath weapon CAN affect single targets if nobody else is caught in the blast.
Lastly, in the event they can use it for the breath weapon, should I? Because on the one hand his unarmed damage and STR mod are pretty bad, on the other hand a free 1d6 per level save for half seems like it might be a bit much for damage.
Sorry if this question has already been answered, but I was unable to dig it up if it has.
| kestral287 |
It has to affect only a single target, yes.
The breath weapon is actually not as impressive as it looks at first glance. Baseline, at 10th level it's doing an average of 35 damage before the save. That's... yeah, not great.
There are ways to get it up a bit; Robe of Arcane Heritage is a 14-damage jump and Mythic Bloodline (if Mythic is on the table for him) is another 14, but even then it's not really all that impressive. It does have a nice save DC, but there's not a lot you can do with that without dipping into 3.5 stuff.