A small clarification on Efreeti style feat as well as styles that function similarly plz.


Rules Questions


Efreeti style reads:

Your mastery of the unpredictable power of flames allows you to unleash scorching strikes that burn your enemies even when you fail to make contact.

Prerequisites: Con 13, Wis 15, Elemental Fist, Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +9 or monk level 5th.

Benefit: You gain one additional Elemental Fist (Advanced Player’s Guide 158) attempt per day. While using this style and Elemental Fist to deal fire damage, you gain a bonus on fire damage rolls equal to your Wisdom bonus. Further, if your Elemental Fist melee attack misses while you are using it to deal fire damage, you still deal 1d6 points of fire damage to your target.

The benefit section states that so long as I have this style active and use elemental fist to deal fire damage I add my wisdom bonus as extra fire damage. It also states that if my attack misses I still deal 1d6 points of fire damage. Mostly pretty clear cut, however it says I deal 1d6 fire damage on a miss, not 1d6+Wis points of fire damage. I feel that since the first sentence doesn't say that the extra damage based on my Wis modifier is contingent upon the attack hitting I feel that I would still get the extra damage, as I still have Efreeti style active and I am still dealing fire damage via elemental strike.

Thx in advance for the help ladies and gents. :)


Correct, the damage on a missed attack is still fire damage, and falls under the category of the first part of the ability.


It also doesn't say it's limited to the Fire damage from Elemental Fist either. Never noticed that before.

So if you have like a Elemental Spell'd Shocking Grasp you're delivering as part of an Unarmed Strike that's using Elemental Fist, you get to add your Wis mod to that damage too.

Neat.

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