Turn/Rebuke Undead Friend or Foe [3.5]

[unre9istered]

Does Turn/Rebuke Undead have Friend or Foe recognition?
In other words, you have undead in your party and are fighting more undead. Can you select the targets of Turn/Rebuke Undead or does it just affect the closest legitimate targets?

[Devils_Advocate]

"You turn the closest turnable undead first". That includes you, technically, if you're undead, which works weirdly. Being rebuked is bad because it causes you to cower. Being turned also causes you to cower, because you can't flee from yourself. But being commanded isn't bad at all; being under your own mental control is just how you are normally, right?

Pathfinder clerics get to channel energy more selectively, although they need a feat to do this, if I recall correctly.

[Geiger Counter]

Play deathless or channel negative energy and have everyone take tomb tainted soul.

[ericgrau]

Evil clerics could bolser their undead allies before they start rebuking enemies, to reduce the chance that their allies get rebuked.

RAMS seems to be that undead clerics don't turn themselves. There's an example of an undead cleric given and yet there's no mention of him running into any problems.

[faceroll]

"You turn the closest turnable undead first". That includes you, technically, if you're undead, which works weirdly. Being rebuked is bad because it causes you to cower. Being turned also causes you to cower, because you can't flee from yourself. But being commanded isn't bad at all; being under your own mental control is just how you are normally, right?

Pathfinder clerics get to channel energy more selectively, although they need a feat to do this, if I recall correctly.

Having to use a standard action to take a standard action kind of sucks, though.