| Vanderes |
I want to know if kirin strike adds to the effective splash damage or not, specifically for the purposes of the sticky bomb discovery. It makes sense that you can't deal kirin strike damage with splash because it's not an attack roll, but the wording for kirin strike is " you can add twice your Intelligence modifier in damage". I feel like since it says "add" and "in damage" means that you just amp up the attacks damage, and don't deal separate damage, because in this case as well with a melee attack the irin strike damage wouldn't be subject to DR separate from the original attack. furthermore I think it's safe to assume that the extra damage you do is the same type as the original.
All that is important for the argument that kirin strike does add to the effective splash damage of a bomb because the wording for splash damage is: "so if the bomb would deal 2d6+4 points of fire damage on a direct hit, its splash damage would be 6 points of fire damage". So, based on the wording of both I assume the bomb would deal damage on a direct hit as follows: 2d6+4+INTx2 instead of 2d6+4 and INTx2 ("and" and + not being interchangeable here of course) basically symbolizing that the damage isn't separate. So if a bomb dealing 2d6+4 deals splash damage of 6, would that bomb with kirin strike EFFECTIVELY deal 6+INTx2 in splash damage? So would the splash damage for sticky bomb go up?