Can a Headless Ghoul Escape Artist fight?

[Tonguez]

First did anyone notice that Ghouls have an Escape Artist skill of +7 - can anyone tell me why Ghouls have escapeartist skill?

Also I was reading the vorpal description and it says that some undead keep fighting after having their heads cut off.

I was wondering how others 'play' this. Do your zombies and ghouls just keep going? what kind of miss chance do they have?

If I gave my Headless Ghoul the Blindfight feat would it kick bootie! (and be immune to Vorpal weapons)

Actually come to think of it Undead are immune to critical hits does this also make them immune to magic weapons triggered by critical hits (eg Flaming Burst)

 

[LostSoul]

I don't think that a ghoul would survive having its head cut off. Where is its brain? Ghouls are smart.

Escape Artist: maybe ghouls are really flexible? although that seems like a high Dex or Racial modifier.

 

[Left-handed Hummingbird]

Perhaps the ghouls have a high escape artist skill in order to be able to create "night of the living dead" scenes where the heroes have boarded up the windows and the doors and tries to fend off the ghouls trying to get in. A higher escape artist skill would make the threat of the ghouls getting in higher.

 

[dave_o]

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Or, with all those broken bones/pieces of rotting flesh, it wouldn't be too tough to pull out of ropes, chains, manacles, etc. You could simply pop your arm out of place, contortionist style, or even have arms so broken that you don't even need to.

Or, you could just rip/gnaw the bound limb off.

I just had a wicked idea for a group of Ghoul contortionists travelling the planes, lead by a Ghast/Lich/Wight/whatever. Sweet.