Touch of the Shadow Sun (Su): A Shadow Sun ninja strikes a careful balance between light and dark, good and evil. Although your heart is dedicated to good, you know that the shadow of evil will always be a part of you. This realization, along with careful control of your ki energy, allows you to wield the energy of both the dark and light aspects of your being. This understanding and mastery allows you to deal damage with one attack, then turn and heal an ally with the reverse of that harmful energy. With a melee touch attack made as a standard action, you can deal negative energy damage equal to your base unarmed damage + your Wis modifier. Note that undead are healed by this attack, since it uses negative energy. In the round after you use this ability, you can touch a creature as a standard action and heal an amount of damage equal to the damage you dealt with your negative energy touch on the previous round. If the target of this healing touch makes no effort to prevent you from touching him, you can touch the creature as a swift action. You cannot use both aspects of this ability on the same round, nor can you use the negative energy touch again in a round after you have already successfully used it. After you channel negative energy into a creature, you convert that energy into a positive energy charge that prevents you from using the negative energy aspect of this ability until the positive energy has been discharged.
Eu procuro em vão ver onde o toque negativo da energia tem que estar sobre uma criatura, ou qualquer coisa específica. Então, RAW, eu teria que dizer sim, seria legal. Quanto ao dano que causaria, quantos HP tem uma árvore?
"How many HP does a tree have ?" D20SRD : The trunk of a typical tree has AC 4, hardness 5, and 150 hp. Medium and dense forests have massive trees as well. These trees take up an entire square and provide cover to anyone behind them. They have AC 3, hardness 5, and 600 hp. – Trajan
Obrigado, Trajano!
Além disso, a praga diz especificamente que ela danifica as plantas porque é a única coisa que causa danos.
Em resposta à sua segunda pergunta,
"This also leads to the question that if a divine caster can do burst area damage with these energies, could not a savvy tracker find a cleric by following the patches of growth in the ground (or areas of blight, accordingly)?"
Para a instância que você mencionou acima, não vejo por que teria que ser um rastreador experiente. "Hey, Bubba, olhe para essa trilha de coisas mortas ..... Vamos ver para onde vai".
"One creature," "Creature touched," or "Creatures within x feet," as most do.
No entanto, percebendo que esse efeito atinge apenas uma forma de vida específica, não haveria grandes manchas de ferrugem. Obrigado KRyan!
O 3.5 Blighter Prestigious Class tem um poder chamado Deforestation que faz especificamente isso.
Deforestation (Sp): A blighter can kill all nonsentient plant life within a radius of 20 feet per blighter level as a full-round action once per day. If a potentially affected plant is under the control of another (such as a druid’s liveoak or a dryad’s home tree), the controller can make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + blighter level + blighter’s Wis modifier) to keep it alive. Affected plants immediately cease photosynthesis, root tapping, and all other methods of sustenance. Like picked flowers, they appear vibrant for several hours, but within a day, they turn brown and wither. Except for plants selected by a controller, nothing can grow in a deforested area until it has a hallow spell cast upon it and it is reseeded.
Deforestation enables a blighter to cast her daily allotment of spells. This ability works in any terrain, but deforesting a sandy desert, ice floe, or other environment with only sparse vegetation does not empower the character to cast spells.