Touch spell in combination with unarmed attack

[Grog]

Maybe I just didn't look hard enough, but I couldn't find anything in the book about this. Say someone (like a Cleric/Monk, for example) casts a touch spell and holds the charge. Next round, they decide to make an unarmed attack against an enemy. Do they:

A) Roll vs. the enemy's normal AC, and if they miss, nothing happens;

OR

B) Roll and compare the result to both the enemy's normal AC and the enemy's touch AC, giving us these possibilities:

1. They miss both ACs - nothing happens

2. They hit both ACs, in which case the enemy takes damage from both the touch spell and the unarmed attack

3. They miss the normal AC but hit the touch AC, in which case the enemy takes damage from the touch spell, but not the unarmed attack

OR

C) Some other possibility I haven't thought of


Anyone know for sure how this works? Or if there's not a hard and fast rule, how about opinions? I'd tend to go with option B myself, unless there's a rule somewhere that contradicts it.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Tome and Blood p38 says A.

-Hyp.

 

[Grog]

Tome and Blood p38 says A.

Thanks - figured it might be in a splatbook somewhere.

 

[Magic Slim]

I don't have that book. Do they say it's for simplicity's sake, or do they have a logical rationale behind it?

Thanks in advance

Slim

 

[Hypersmurf]

I'm away from my book, but it essentially just says that if you're delivering a touch spell with an unarmed strike, it's a melee attack roll, not a melee touch attack roll; and if you hit, the spell is discharged.

-Hyp.