Long Limbs (Ex): At 3rd level, your reach increases by 5 feet whenever you are making a melee touch attack. This ability does not otherwise increase your threatened area. At 11th level, this bonus to your reach increases to 10 feet. At 17th level, this bonus to your reach increases to 15 feet.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/sorcerer/bloodlines/bloodlines -from-paizo/aberrant-bloodline
So generally speaking, I know that RAW as RAW and you shouldn't make any inferences. This increases your reach, but only when you're making a melee touch attack. It does not increase your reach to pick up objects, to pull levers, or anything like that.
Which would make sense if it was magic. Just shooting your arms out for a brief moment.
But it's an Extraordinary ability, thus, non-magical.
How does one imagine this in practice, someone who's reach increases only to touch through a non-magical means?
I'm not sure if Rules Question or General would've been a better place for this topic.
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Maybe your limbs get an "elastic" quality, and temporarily reach further while getting thinner. That would also explain it's only for a touch attack: you can't exert much force like that.
Its an abberation, so its that horrifying body horror moment where the man you once thought normal stretches out his arms to strangle you and burn you with this horrific unnatural arms! but only for a brief moment before they come back to relax at his side... Temporarily, shaking for the moment from their want and need to come back at you and try again.
Alternatively, I imagine it like he ate a magic fruit that gave him stretchy rubber arms.
I'd suggest that it is because there is something mundane about your anatomy that causes your limbs to stretch when they have a magical charge in them, but they are otherwise the normal length.
Abberations are wierd and don't always act in accordance with the laws of the world. Thats the best excuse I can come up with for the moment anyway.
'only works when there's a magical charge' says (SU) to me, but maybe that's just me.
The magical charge is, obviously, magical, but having your body react to magic in a totally mundane biological way is not.
I don't get how this can be (ex) and ONLY work for touch attacks >.<
It seems reasonable that your arms could become super-stretchy due to fancy weird biology, but that this would make them unsuitable to weapon fighting. Slapping someone in the chest with your flailing rubbery hand is no problem, but trying to hold a sword effectively with your joints all out of place would be awkward.
I guess weak-elasticity is the best way to think about it. Better than coiling your arms >_>
Maybe it's just your tongue. :P
This seems less like Luffy and more like long arm tribe style ability.
