delericho
Legend
Because the rules don't support cutting the head off. At least, with anything other than a vorpal weapon.
Even coup de grace != cutting the head off - note that a successful Fort save means that it can be survived.
Coup de Grace A troll with fire resistance Question
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Because the rules don't support cutting the head off. At least, with anything other than a vorpal weapon.
Even coup de grace != cutting the head off - note that a successful Fort save means that it can be survived.
I Dmed a similar campaign. It was a solo campaign I played with my girlfriend. She had like 8 PC's but I controlled half during play (and we usually split up the group and focused on one group during play). She wasnt really into it and mainly played because I wanted to, so I pretty much designed all her PC's (using rules from savage species). She liked owning houses and shops so I gave her a town. I designed her PC's for gathering minions and the town had like 30 creatures but all where loyal to her (she had skeletons and giant spiders guarding the city gates; we only got to like level 7 in the campaign). I relaxed "reality" in this campaign and she had a hellhound a hellcat and an astral deva both on her team as PC's... She had a yuan-ti wizard that specialized in conjuration and an imp wizard that specialized in evocation (actually we named the imp belzbet hence my username...). A doppleganger cleric (this made for fun RP, once she infiltrated a cult of Nerull had to assume the form of a Nerullian cleric and had to go through a rather excruciating initiation process... this actually, in character, spurred her love of necromancy, hence all the undead roaming the home town... A tiefling rouge... and a human druid... and her beloved catfolk bard (the team leader) It was rather fun...
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Nezkrul
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if a creature has regeneration bypassed by fire and acid but gains fire and acid immunity in some way, his regeneration stops working and instead becomes fast healing; this is in the FAQ or Errata (can't remember which)
you can't coup de grace a creature with regeneration unless you use a damage type that bypasses its regeneration; and even then the save DC only counts the damage done by the type that bypasses
dismembering trolls doesn't kill them unless you deal lethal damage with the dismembering attacks, because non-lethal damage is just that, non-lethal; their body parts would instantly reattach themselves (they still would take the non-lethal damage from the hit but the limb instantly reattaches)
you can't coup de grace a creature with regeneration unless you use a damage type that bypasses its regeneration; and even then the save DC only counts the damage done by the type that bypasses
dismembering trolls doesn't kill them unless you deal lethal damage with the dismembering attacks, because non-lethal damage is just that, non-lethal; their body parts would instantly reattach themselves (they still would take the non-lethal damage from the hit but the limb instantly reattaches)
Interesting id love to see the official errata... ill look...
delericho
Legend
I must admit, that's the first I've heard of that. It's also a terrible ruling - that means that the combination of two very powerful benefits is actually worse than either of the two individually. If it's FAQ, I recommend filing it under the heading of "FAQ got it wrong". If it's errata, I recommend promptly house-ruling it away.
Greenfield
Adventurer
The alternative is allowing a Regenning creature to become virtually indestructible. If they're immune to the only things that can do damage to them, well...
I see it as a rule that will never come into play, because nobody will bother to build such a creature if they can't get the "indestructible" thing they really want.
I see it as a rule that will never come into play, because nobody will bother to build such a creature if they can't get the "indestructible" thing they really want.
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...unless your DM likes puzzles. Solving the issue of a seemingly unkillable troll* is a perfectly valid conundrum.
* you drown it, suffocate it, starve it, petrify it, trap it in stone, use a Wish, use a necromantic "killing" spell, use a Con-destroying poison, find & use the campaign-specific unkillable troll killing weapon, etc.
* you drown it, suffocate it, starve it, petrify it, trap it in stone, use a Wish, use a necromantic "killing" spell, use a Con-destroying poison, find & use the campaign-specific unkillable troll killing weapon, etc.
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