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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 280776" data-attributes="member: 2011">I think that you have to use common sense for spells that are unclear.In this case, damage should not be the relevant factor. Attempting to attack should be the relevant factor.So, if someone attacks you, and they actually touch you, they are damaged.It should not matter if your DR or Immunity to Acid or armor portion of AC or any other protections prevent them from actually damaging you (with whatever attack they are using), merely that they attempted to attack you, touched you, and got burned in return."Any creature striking the character with its body or handheld weapons deals normal damage"A literal interpretation of this can be as follows: If I hit you with a touch attack, I deal normal damage of X. If I hit you with a regular attack that would have hit your touch attack AC but fails to hit your total AC, I deal normal damage of 0. Just because the damage in this case would be zero (stopped by armor) does not invalidate the statement that you got struck.So, you can interpret this fairly easily to mean that touch attacks are affected.What good is a damage shield type spell that only damages if the opponent successfully damages you? This gives high hit point opponents too much of an advantage. One full round attack by a combative type character could result in death for the Wizard, but just major damage for his opponent. If though, normal attacks that still hit touch attack AC damage the opponent, then the opposite can happen. The Wizard might take no damage, but his opponent might take a lot of damage.Also, the spell is kind of bogus in that you cannot use it offensively either. The Wizard cannot grapple an opponent and damage him with the spell.In my campaign, I would allow that. The Wizard should be able to control the spell such that if he gets on his horse, he can prevent it from damaging the horse (which it would not do as written anyway), but if he grapples someone, he can ensure that it damages him as long as he touches him.</blockquote>

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