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<blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5772760" data-attributes="member: 78958">As a rule, you can deliver everything that is a touch attack on a regular unarmed or natural attack: be it an Inflict spell, contact poison smeared on your glove, or what-have-you, you have a choice. Either make a regular attack, which will deal damage as normal AND deliver the spell/contact poison/etc., or make a touch attack, which will ONLY deliver the spell/contact poison/etc.HOWEVER, the reverse isn't necessarily true! Not every 'rider effect' that applies on a successful regular unarmed or natural attack will also apply on a mere touch attack. For example, if you have an Amulet of Mighty Fists that is enchanted with the Wounding property (dealing 1 point of Con damage on a successful hit), it will work ONLY on regular attacks. If you just touch somebody, they won't take Con damage from it. Similarly, a Wight won't drain a level if it just touches you (unlike <a href="http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0515.html" target="_blank">this comic strip</a> seems to assume) - it needs a successful claw attack. A flaming weapon doesn't deal 1d6 fire damage if it just touches an opponent, either.So all I can say is, it depends. Look at the ability's/effect's writeup. If it says something along the lines of &quot;on each successful attack...&quot; and doesn't qualify it with something like &quot;even on a miss, if your attack would have hit the target's touch AC...&quot;, you're out of luck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Empirate, post: 5772760, member: 78958"] As a rule, you can deliver everything that is a touch attack on a regular unarmed or natural attack: be it an Inflict spell, contact poison smeared on your glove, or what-have-you, you have a choice. Either make a regular attack, which will deal damage as normal AND deliver the spell/contact poison/etc., or make a touch attack, which will ONLY deliver the spell/contact poison/etc. HOWEVER, the reverse isn't necessarily true! Not every 'rider effect' that applies on a successful regular unarmed or natural attack will also apply on a mere touch attack. For example, if you have an Amulet of Mighty Fists that is enchanted with the Wounding property (dealing 1 point of Con damage on a successful hit), it will work ONLY on regular attacks. If you just touch somebody, they won't take Con damage from it. Similarly, a Wight won't drain a level if it just touches you (unlike [URL="http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0515.html"]this comic strip[/URL] seems to assume) - it needs a successful claw attack. A flaming weapon doesn't deal 1d6 fire damage if it just touches an opponent, either. So all I can say is, it depends. Look at the ability's/effect's writeup. If it says something along the lines of "on each successful attack..." and doesn't qualify it with something like "even on a miss, if your attack would have hit the target's touch AC...", you're out of luck. [/QUOTE]

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