Channel Negative Energy Question

[J-83]

I am really new to Pathfinder, and DnD rules in general. But making an evil cleric and i'm really confused if this spell does damage to my party and myself. I tried looking things up, but I could not find if this was the case or not. (basically does this spell cause "friendly fire"). Thanks.

[timechef]

There's a feat 'selective channel' that does what you want. Requires 13 charisma, so build accordingly.

Edit: Yes, damage living does normally damage party members.

[Kommissar K]

Also note, channel negative can heal undead you might be fighting.

Does the game's selective channel feat also limit targets selected = Cha modifier?

[J-83]

Damn, thanks for the advice....I probably wouldnt have noticed that feat. Thanks!

Feel like I need to read a whole rulebook to play the game, haha.

[J-83]

Oh another question! So is going Dwarf a bad idea for this than since they have penalty to CHA?

[Kommissar K]

Originally posted by synthwavegames:

Oh another question! So is going Dwarf a bad idea for this than since they have penalty to CHA?

Not necessarily. They get increased Wis, which is good for spellcasting.

You could just opt to disregard channel as a real option and focus on other things.

[Bastion]

yes it would do damage to you party unless you also take selective channeling, then it should exclude your party from the damage

[timechef]

Originally posted by synthwavegames:

Oh another question! So is going Dwarf a bad idea for this than since they have penalty to CHA?

I made a dwarf custom NPC, and he works fine. You probably won't want to pump Charisma up high anyway, so the penalty doesn't have much affect on the point-buy spread.

[Randomz]

Originally posted by synthwavegames:

Oh another question! So is going Dwarf a bad idea for this than since they have penalty to CHA?

You can just leave CHA at 13 for feat qualifiers if thats what you want. (:

[Finrod]

Does anyone know, if you take the death domain and evil cleric, if (by level 8) the negative energy of your own channelling heals you?

[Kommissar K]

Originally posted by Finrod:

Does anyone know, if you take the death domain and evil cleric, if (by level 8) the negative energy of your own channelling heals you?

Its been a long time, but I feel it does

Friend and I used to joke about running a pair of Pharasman clerics that channel positive and negative, but due to death domain and selective channel can just burn enemies down.

[Ghost]

There's a headband or belt that adds 2d6 per channel, so strong wow

my concern about an evil cleric is my party is good and if we do too many good deeds, my evil guy will lose favor with deity

[J-83]

So I decided on a human, are these stats decent enough? https://imgur.com/a/FjosEly

[krule7777]

Raising your wisdom to 20 will get you an extra 1st level spell and increase your spell DC's (Difficulty Check) so it might be better to put that attribute bonus into wisdom. Alternatively, going Aasimar with undefined heritage will give you a +2 to both Wisdom and Charisma, as well as a +2 bonus to that perception and persuasion skill you have there and searing light once per day is pretty good as well. You'd be losing the extra feat and skill point humans get, which I admit, makes them really strong choices, but I think in this case the Aasimar is a superior choice

[timechef]

Originally posted by Creamy:

There's a headband or belt that adds 2d6 per channel, so strong wow

my concern about an evil cleric is my party is good and if we do too many good deeds, my evil guy will lose favor with deity

Don't think this can happen. I have a couple custom npcs in my party and I haven't noticed any alignment drift on them. Think only the main pc can change alignment.

[Ghost]

thanks timechef, good to know