Twilight Sage Consume Life Range

[Roto]

Can anyone tell me the range on the Arcanist Twilight Sage's Consume Life ability? I ran into a game yesterday where there was some debate regarding it and I couldn't find anything listing it or clarifying it.

[avr]

There's nothing specified, but I'd assume the same as Death Knell, i.e. touch.

[Murdock Mudeater]

avr wrote:

There's nothing specified, but I'd assume the same as Death Knell, i.e. touch.

Seems like a pretty big nerf to impose a touch range on that ability, when it really doesn't say. I mean, it's a full round action to activate, so if they have to move to the target, then spend a full round, you've switched it into basically an out-of-combat ability (which I don't think is the intent). It's already pretty weak, especially if you aren't playing in an evil campaign (doesn't require an evil alignment to use).

For the record, Death Knell is a Standard Action.

[Freehold DM]

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[Diego Rossi]

Murdock Mudeater wrote:

avr wrote:

There's nothing specified, but I'd assume the same as Death Knell, i.e. touch.

Seems like a pretty big nerf to impose a touch range on that ability, when it really doesn't say. I mean, it's a full round action to activate, so if they have to move to the target, then spend a full round, you've switched it into basically an out-of-combat ability (which I don't think is the intent). It's already pretty weak, especially if you aren't playing in an evil campaign (doesn't require an evil alignment to use).

For the record, Death Knell is a Standard Action.

It recharge your arcane reservoir. It isn't a combat ability, it is meant to be something that you do after combat on the fallen enemies.

It replace consume spell, so I would give it a range of touch.

[Vrischika111]

you can kill a helpless creature with that action (like coup-de-grâce)
of course it should be touch otherwise you can finish fallen opponents from safety without anything preventing you.

(also the cacodaemon can eat souls as well, and it's touch)