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As a pal,i want to use Lay on Hand more than once per round and i want to do it with a a conductive weapon(swift action to myself,one hit with conductive weapon to ally or myself again).Is it legal?
A conductive weapon is able to channel the energy of a spell-like or supernatural ability that relies on a melee or ranged touch attack to hit its target (such as from a cleric’s domain granted power, sorcerer’s bloodline power, oracle’s mystery revelation, or wizard’s arcane school power). When the wielder makes a successful attack of the appropriate type, he may choose to expend two uses of his magical ability to channel it through the weapon to the struck opponent, which suffers the effects of both the weapon attack and the special ability. (If the wielder has unlimited uses of a special ability, she may channel through the weapon every round.) For example, a paladin who strikes an undead opponent with her conductive greatsword can expend two uses of her lay on hands ability (a supernatural melee touch attack) to deal both greatsword damage and damage from one use of lay on hands.
A given character can use this weapon special ability only once per round (even if she has several conductive weapons), and the power works only with magical abilities of the same type as the weapon (melee or ranged).
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Thanks for advice.I have used a trait to deal non-leth damage.
But there still is a quesion.A conductive weapon is able to channel the energy of a spell-like or supernatural ability that relies on a melee or ranged touch attack to hit its target.
he may choose to expend two uses of his magical ability to channel it through the weapon to the struck opponent.
It said "target" at first sentence and used "opponent" later, which make me confused.
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Using on yourself as a swift and on your ally as a standard should work. I’ve seen some table variation that a Paladin can’t lay on hands herself twice in one round, because it just says it isn’t a swift action and not may use it as a swift action on themselves. But there’s also the FAQ about counting as your own ally, and it seems silly that you don’t have the option to use it normally on yourself.
There is a simpler solution than conductive, even if your GM rules you can’t use LoH twice in a round. Conductive takes two uses of the ability. Channel Energy takes two uses of the ability. Just channel and heal yourself and your ally. And the rest of your party. If you think you’ll be doing that a lot, pick up Selective Channel.
Using the conductive weapon on your ally is not a problem, but he does take the damage from the weapon. Even if you are doing non-lethal damage you ally is probably going to be worse off after you hit him. About the only circumstance I can see where this may be even remotely useful would be if the ally is about to die and you need to heal him. Problem is that in that circumstance he will more than likely be uncurious and helpless.
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I see now. It’s similar to how poisoners gloves sometimes get used by an Alchemist in a full attack routine to deliver an extract to themselves with their last attack. I think that’s a grey area that I wouldn’t be comfortable using myself, but that plenty of GMs might allow.
The thing to do as someone noted up thread would be to deal non-lethal damage with the attack. Say you deal 15 points of non-lethal, and you heal 20 points of damage. All the non-lethal would be wiped out and the target would heal 20 normal hit points.
You might run into an issue if the GM decides the target momentarily goes unconscious from the non-lethal exceeding their current hitpoints, as they would drop whatever they are holding and fall prone.
Anyway, if this was not an attempt to find a loophole in the action economy, then channel. If the intent is to use it as part of a full attack, expect table variation, but I think I’ve seen more people leaning towards allowing it with the poisoner’s gloves, so it would probably work here. I was just never comfortable enough with it to try bringing that tactic to the table.