Smite and Full-Round Attacks

[BettyBlack]

So I built a character for a game my group is playing, and the character uses a lot of smite. They're a Favoured Soul that has Ordained Champion and Cyran Avenger. The thing is, I built the character thinking that I could smite as a full round action. It was my reading that smite is a swift action that applies to your next attack for Ordained Champ, and an extraordinary ability that is part of your attack for Cyran Avenger, and I thought that "attack" would include a full-round attack. My group, three sessions in, realized that's what I was doing, and don't agree with me. I've looked around for an official ruling and not found anything, so I was wondering if anyone had opinions/ more information? I'm hoping I'm right because my whole build is based around getting to the person and avenging smiting the poop out of them, but if I'm legit wrong I'd also like to know.

Let me know if you need more info. Thanks!

[Terazul]

Well by Full-Round attack do you mean a Full Attack action? Because then, no, doesn't work.

Ordained Champion's Smite (Su) is explicitly a swift action that causes your next attack to have a bonus to hit and deal bonus damage.
Cyran Avenger's Avenging Strike (Ex) is a non-action that similarly adds a bonus to damage and attack rolls on a single attack.

So while you can use both of them on the same turn, on a single, devastating attack, using either of them doesn't apply the effects to any attacks beyond the first in the round; At least from what I can tell, anyway. A Full Attack action is a specific kind of action, but the resolution is made up of multiple, individual attacks with their own bonuses and modifiers.

[Andezzar]

An attack (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/glossary&term=Glossary_dnd_attack&alpha=A) is a single attack (i.e. one roll, one time damage) no matter what action this attack takes (No Action (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/attacksOfOpportunity.htm), Standard Action, Full Round Action (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/actionsInCombat.htm#fullAttack)). So no matter what type of attack action follows the swift action enabling the smite you only do the extra damage once. Unless you somehow gain additional swift actions you can only spend one turn undead attempt per round.

You can however boost that attack with an Avenging strike if all conditions are met.