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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 4947401" data-attributes="member: 72317">I had actually meant that the swift action might be better used casting a quickened spell (seeing as to how you had 3 uses of those), and given that arcane strike is a free action, this makes energy surge even less attractive...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />It appears the sage did not take into consideration the fact that applying metamagic feats to a spontaneous caster like the duskblade would increase the spell's casting time (either that or he assumed the player was able to skirt round this drawback somehow). Or maybe he did not address that point as he felt it was not the crux of the question.I suppose you could take arcane preparation and prepare empowered vampiric touches beforehand.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Not sure if you stack the temp hp from multiple attacks, so that is a discussion I won't wade into. Personally, if I were the DM, I wouldn't allow it for a player, but considering that the OP is the DM and plans to use it on an npc...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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