Does Smite Evil count as a good attack?


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Silver Crusade

Hi,

question is pretty much in the title:

If a paladin smites an evil creature, does his attack count as good?

Background of the question is a monster with regeneration 5 (good weapons, good spells).

I think that RAW the paladin is not able to block the regeneration by merely smiting the monster, instead he'd need to cast bless weapon for the task or beat it to a pulp and suffocate it.
If anybody here know that this is wrong please do correct me.

Also note that while "at my table I'd allow it" is a valid and appreciated answer (because that's how I would rule it at my home game), this is intended for PFS play. So answers based on rules are very valuable. :)


Smite simply bypasses all DR, it doesn't add any extra abilities to your attack.

Sovereign Court

@Blackbot: you read it correctly.

As a corollary, a +5 weapon bypasses DR/alignment, but there's no rule saying the same holds for Regeneration/Alignment.


Not only does smite not say anything about adding any sort of technical "good" tag to stuff, but it's ALSO neither a spell nor a weapon. It's a supernatural ability. So fails to qualify on two fronts.

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