Before you begin, make sure you have the following available: If you take some time to gather the necessary information before you begin your request, it should only take about 15 minutes to complete. Please contact us if you have any questions. You are welcome to use EPIC to build a portfolio of your medical credentials, if desired, at any time. You will provide your medical education credentials to ECFMG for verification through the ECFMG Certification program. If you are pursuing ECFMG Certification and applying for USMLE, you are not required to use EPIC. And which one is the most recent released book and should be worded correctly.Pursuing ECFMG Certification and registering for the United States Medical Licensing Examination ® (USMLE ®)? So you've proved that another one is poorly written too. Ignoring them as well as the RAW of the Smite ability calls into question whether the concern is actually with the rules or with you not able to handle the powerscale of Paladins. There are several ways to counteract/reduce Smite and its benefits/applications. There's also an armor property that allows you to shrug off a Smite effect 1/day, which can be replenished by using up a Smite charge but the 1/day thing should be more than enough, since he still has to waste Smite charges and Swift Actions (which could be used to heal instead) to get Smite benefits. You could be smart and throw in other lines of defense, such as making him have Ghost Touch equipment with an Incorporeal effect, meaning even if he does Smite, he still isn't accomplishing too much.

(Quite frankly, it would be more civil to just have a Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies effect put on the Paladin, as well as every other Paladin in your game.)Īnd if the Fighter isn't Evil, that Smite won't work, ergo no DR bypass. That being said, if you don't allow it to work, you're ignoring the RAW (any means any remember this thread and your viewpoint here? Same application), and it's just downright cruel in your attempts to kill the Paladin. (It's also not that bad, since Fighters can get feats later down the road that helps accomplish this though it's universal they aren't nearly as good as bypassing every kind of DR they have). I hate to say it, but if you're throwing 10/5 Mythic Fighters at your Paladin, who has zero Mythic tiers, and is only half of his base level, you must really hate him, the class he plays, as well as any Paladin in your game. Regardless of the target, smite evil attacks automatically bypass any DR the creature might possess. If the target of smite evil is an outsider with the evil subtype, an evil-aligned dragon, or an undead creature, the bonus to damage on the first successful attack increases to 2 points of damage per level the paladin possesses. If this target is evil, the paladin adds her Cha bonus (if any) to her attack rolls and adds her paladin level to all damage rolls made against the target of her smite. As a swift action, the paladin chooses one target within sight to smite. Once per day, a paladin can call out to the powers of good to aid her in her struggle against evil. Weapons with special abilities also count as epic for the purposes of overcoming damage reduction if the total bonus value of all of their abilities (including the enhancement bonus) is +6 or greater. NOTE: The Mythic rules are the latter rules.Ī type of damage reduction, DR/epic can be overcome only by a weapon with an enhancement bonus of +6 or greater. If a Paladin uses Smite Evil does it bypass even DR/Epic? I'm struggling with the idea that a say, a 5th level Paladin can smite a level 10/5 mythic Fighter due to Smite Evil with a +1 sword and bypass all DR.

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