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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3d6" data-source="post: 2909498" data-attributes="member: 12715">Power Attack grants a bonus to "melee damage rolls". This term is used three times in the SRD: in the Power Attack feat itself, in the bull's strength spell, and in the solid fog spell.Bull's strength says that modifying "melee damage rolls" is a "usual benefit" of improving a character's Strength score.The entry for Strength indicates that Strength modifies "damage rolls when using a melee weapon or a thrown weapon (including a sling)".As damage rolls with a thrown weapon are self-evidently not melee damage rolls, I can only assume that a melee damage roll is a damage rolll made when using a melee weapon.As a touch spell is not a melee weapon, it doesn't have a melee damage roll and therefore doesn't benefit from the Power Attack feat.</blockquote>