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Cormac
2008-03-19, 01:46 PM
[protection from evil] the spell prevents bodily contact by summoned creatures. This causes the natural weapon attacks of such creatures to fail and the creatures to recoil if such attacks require touching the warded creature. Good summoned creatures are immune to this effect. The protection against contact by summoned creatures ends if the warded creature makes an attack against or tries to force the barrier against the blocked creature. Spell resistance can allow a creature to overcome this protection and touch the warded creature.

[Protection from Chaos] This spell functions like protection from evil, except that the deflection and resistance bonuses apply to attacks from chaotic creatures, and chaotic summoned creatures cannot touch the subject.

Either protection from evil is more powerful (only good creatures are immune, ie neutral creatures are affected) than protection from chaos (only chaotic summoned creatures are affected, thus neutral creatures can affect) or there is some errataing to be done here.

tyckspoon
2008-03-19, 11:05 PM
I'm pretty sure they have the same effect; you just do a find/replace of evil-chaotic to get from Prot. Evil to Prot. Chaos. Protection from Chaos says 'as Protection from Evil' except:... and there's nothing in that exception line about non-Chaotic summoned creatures, so you should refer back to Protection from Evil to see how the spell affects them.