So i am to join a pathfinder group and will be playing the first session about 2-3 weeks from now. I have decided that i am going for a paladin, specificly a oradin. We start of at lvl 8.
Now, right now i am trying to find which oracle curse would fit in and i came upon this one called merciful
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/oracle/oracle-curses
You are bound to offer tender aid to those who are most wounded.
Effect:
If a non-enemy character who is adjacent asks you to heal them, or asks you for help and you can tell they have taken damage or drain or suffer from a disease or poison, you must help them on your next tum. If they have a condition or suffer from a poison or disease that you can neutralize or cure with any ability you possess or any spell you can cast, you must do so as your next action. Otherwise, if they have taken any damage, you must cast a spell or use an ability that heals hit points. Also, you cannot perform a coup de grace. You gain the ability to lay on hands, as the paladin ability, using your curse level as your paladin level.
At 5th level, you gain a mercy, as the paladin ability.
At 10th level, you gain a second mercy, and can exchange your first mercy for a different one.
At 15th level, you gain a third mercy, and can exchange one of your existing mercies for a different one.
My question is this: do the lay on hands from this curse, stack with the one i have from my paladin or is it treated as a seperatede thing, much like Channel energy would do?
Thank you for the answer. Looks like a worthwhile curse for a oradin, combined with a lockdown build.
Just note that the Merciful curse is third party and not Paizo, in case your GM isn't okay with that.