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<blockquote data-quote="dcollins" data-source="post: 2697407" data-attributes="member: 876">Sometimes you guys really crack me up. How one can decide that casting cure light wounds counts as an attack spell with no AOO is beyond me. At least 3 separate pieces of evidence in RAW say otherwise:(1) By the glossary definition, cure light wounds is not an &quot;attack&quot; --&gt; so it's not a &quot;touch attack&quot; --&gt; so it's not a &quot;touch attack spell&quot;.(2) In this case, we even have designer intent rationale provided in the text for a no-AOO situation. It's because a touch attack spell &quot;provides you with a credible threat&quot;. There is no credible threat from cure light wounds --&gt; so again it's not a &quot;touch attack spell&quot;.(3) The Table: Actions in Combat actually says &quot;Use touch spell on a friend: Yes&quot; to AOO.And yet somehow the concensus here looks like &quot;RAW says cure light wounds on a friend is an attack spell with no AOO&quot;. Maybe I'm cranky today, but it's like I'm seeing a mass hallucination.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="dcollins, post: 2697407, member: 876"] Sometimes you guys really crack me up. How one can decide that casting [i]cure light wounds[/i] counts as an attack spell with no AOO is beyond me. At least 3 separate pieces of evidence in RAW say otherwise: (1) By the glossary definition, [i]cure light wounds[/i] is not an "attack" --> so it's not a "touch attack" --> so it's not a "touch attack spell". (2) In this case, we even have designer intent rationale provided in the text for a no-AOO situation. It's because a touch attack spell "provides you with a credible threat". There is no credible threat from [i]cure light wounds[/i] --> so again it's not a "touch attack spell". (3) The Table: Actions in Combat actually says "Use touch spell on a friend: Yes" to AOO. And yet somehow the concensus here looks like "RAW says [i]cure light wounds[/i] on a friend is an attack spell with no AOO". Maybe I'm cranky today, but it's like I'm seeing a mass hallucination. :confused: [/QUOTE]

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