Oracle Life Link Revelation

[Unit620]

The Life Link revelation does not give a range or state how the bond is formed, It says its effective to medium range. so can i form a bond as long as they are within medium range.
My GM for society states that you must touch a person to form the bond. I disagree with him on that because the only thing the Life Link states is that its a Standard Action to from the bond and its effective to medium range.
So i say that i should be able to take a standard action to form the bond with them as long as they are within medium range.

Life Link (Su): As a standard action, you may create a bond between yourself and another creature. Each round at the start of your turn, if the bonded creature is wounded for 5 or more hit points below its maximum hit points, it heals 5 hit points and you take 5 hit points of damage. You may have one bond active per oracle level. This bond continues until the bonded creature dies, you die, the distance between you and the other creature exceeds medium range, or you end it as an immediate action (if you have multiple bonds active, you may end as many as you want as part of the same immediate action).

[TriOmegaZero]

There has not been an update on that question despite it being asked many times. The shaman life link hex limits the range for establishing the link to 30ft. I usually have my oracle touch her allies.

[Unit620]

To me its the hex itself that limits the range not the actual life link itself.
Because all the the life spirits hexs are limited to a range of 30ft.

[TriOmegaZero]

It is still a workable compromise until a FAQ answers the question.

[Lady-J]

no compromise needed raw says nothing about needing to touch some one to establish a ling psf needs to follow raw to the T the gm is wrong in this instence

[TriOmegaZero]

Lady-J wrote:

no compromise needed raw says nothing

Never said it did.

[Melkiador]

Sounds like it doesn’t really have a range. So you could start one from 1000 feet away, but then it would end immediately, because you are exceeding the medium range.

[Nefreet]

Unit620 wrote:

My GM for society states that

Sounds like a reasonable thing to do .

I'd personally rule that it can be formed at minimum range, but I wouldn't fault a GM for ruling it must be initiated with a touch, either.

Until/unless it's eventually clarified.

[Lady-J]

the only range indication in the ability is medium range (100+10 per level) so establishing a link with anyone with in that range should be possible

[Unit620]

Mostly trying to decide if at say level 2 you have 2 bonds. i say that i can end and start a bond as needed to help keep the party alive. more or less bounce the bonds around depending on who is hurt and as a life oracle you don't do a whole lot at low levels anyway so a standard action to do so doesn't seem like a big deal to me, mostly because it take the standard action to do it.

[*Thelith]

Shouldn't need to bounce them around much... Two bonds on melee types and you can't bond yourself and a caster/range won't be taking much damage.

With no RAW to support having to touch someone it sounds like it's medium range to create and maintain, however, RAI I think touching should be required.

[Melkiador]

Where are people getting touch from? I’m not seeing anything that even comes close to mentioning touch?

[TriOmegaZero]

No one is getting touch from anywhere. I just choose to have my oracle touch people when establishing links.

[Unit620]

*Thelith wrote:

Shouldn't need to bounce them around much...

in the party i play 99% of the time we have mostly front liners. we very rarely have any casters/ranged. everyone likes to be right in the enemys face.

[SheepishEidolon]

I'd say since it's undefined, it's up to the GM.

Personally, I think this is mostly relevant for combat. Establishing a link does nothing until your next turn, so I wouldn't penalize bonding in combat further by demanding a touch - which might cost the oracle another turn.

[Sammy T]

One to circumvent this is to say that as part of your morning routine you life link everyone in the party (or immediately after the briefing if it’s a dive right in scenario). If you’re life linking during combat, you’re countering the main purpose of life link: action economy.

[Unit620]

Sammy T wrote:

One to circumvent this is to say that as part of your morning routine you life link everyone in the party (or immediately after the briefing if it’s a dive right in scenario). If you’re life linking during combat, you’re countering the main purpose of life link: action economy.

yes i will do that but as of right now i only have 2 bonds so i cant cover everyone that needs it