Expulsionist & Channel Smite


Rules Questions

Dark Archive

1 person marked this as FAQ candidate.

So, I'm wondering if an Expulsionist's Expel Spirit ability can be combined with the Channel Smite feat, or if that counts as "fundamentally altering" vs. "improving". See spoilers below.

I'm looking specifically for "Does RAW support this?" as this would be for a PFS character.

Expel Spirit:
At 1st level, an expulsionist receives Alignment Channel and Turn Undead as bonus feats. She can channel energy a number of times per day equal to 3 + her Charisma modifier as per a cleric with an effective level equal to her inquisitor level, but only to harm or turn evil outsiders or undead (treating all evil outsiders as undead creatures for the purpose of determining whether they can be affected by Turn Undead). She can take other feats that add to this ability, such as Extra Channel or Improved Channel, but not other feats that fundamentally alter this ability, such as Elemental Channel, and she cannot select Alignment Channel multiple times. The DC to save against this ability is equal to 10 + 1/2 the expulsionist’s inquisitor level + her Charisma modifier.

At 8th level, an expulsionist can expend one use of her channel energy ability to attempt to force a possessing creature from its host body. The expulsionist must make a melee touch attack against the possessed creature; if successful, the expulsionist deals damage to the possessing creature as if it were targeted by the expulsionist’s channel energy ability (regardless of the possessing creature’s creature type), and the possession effect ceases as the possessing creature is ejected from the host body. A successful Will save (DC = the expulsionist’s channel energy DC) halves the damage taken and negates the expulsion.

This ability replaces domain.

Channel Smite:

Prerequisite: Channel energy class feature.

Benefit: Before you make a melee attack roll, you can choose to spend one use of your channel energy ability as a swift action. If you channel positive energy and you hit an undead creature, that creature takes an amount of additional damage equal to the damage dealt by your channel positive energy ability. If you channel negative energy and you hit a living creature, that creature takes an amount of additional damage equal to the damage dealt by your channel negative energy ability. Your target can make a Will save, as normal, to halve this additional damage. If your attack misses, the channel energy ability is still expended with no effect.


Yup, you don't have to have the exact same name on the ability for it to be the ability.
Paladins have "Channel Positive Energy" rather than "Channel Energy", but they can still select channel energy feats.

For this specific one you might want to ask in a PFS specific forum, but as far as the RAW outside PFS it works.

Community / Forums / Pathfinder / Pathfinder First Edition / Rules Questions / Expulsionist & Channel Smite All Messageboards

Want to post a reply? Sign in.