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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6342347" data-attributes="member: 20323">I was hesitant to do it that way, in case making it &quot;looks like a melee attack, but it is not a melee attack&quot; had unexpected interactions with the rules. I'm still not sure about this.I'd thought about just doing it that way at first, and looking back over the original monster you might be right... Originally, in 2e, it treated all targets as AC 5 and only rings of protection and high Wisdom modifiers altered the AC. So Dexterity didn't even apply, and yet it is explicitly described as a touch attack: &quot;The creature attacks with its ghostly claws, as it must touch its victim to be effective. The attack is like a searing lash of psychic energy.&quot;And I went with Charisma being its attack (and the save involved, if any), rather than Wisdom, since Charisma is force of personality, and that seems to map better to what the astral searcher is - emotional energy desperate for a physical form.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6342347, member: 20323"] I was hesitant to do it that way, in case making it "looks like a melee attack, but it is not a melee attack" had unexpected interactions with the rules. I'm still not sure about this. I'd thought about just doing it that way at first, and looking back over the original monster you might be right... Originally, in 2e, it treated all targets as AC 5 and only rings of protection and high Wisdom modifiers altered the AC. So Dexterity didn't even apply, and yet it is explicitly described as a touch attack: [i][color=DarkOrange]"The creature attacks with its ghostly claws, as it must touch its victim to be effective. The attack is like a searing lash of psychic energy."[/color][/i] And I went with Charisma being its attack (and the save involved, if any), rather than Wisdom, since Charisma is force of personality, and that seems to map better to what the astral searcher is - emotional energy desperate for a physical form. [/QUOTE]

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