Does Kiss of the Vampire/Shroud of Undeath protect against death effect spells?

[Thanee]

KotV and SoD both say, that you basically count as undead to resolve spell effects, does this include undead immunities against spells (i.e. against spells with a death effects - Slay Living, Finger of Death, etc)?

I think there has been a clarification somewhere that it doesn't, but I'm not sure if or where I've seen it.

Bye
Thanee

 

[gfunk]

I've asked this very question on the Wizards' boards last year. You do not gain the Undead type. However, you are healed by Inflict spells and damaged by Cure spells. Ditto for Harm and Heal.

 

[Berk]

You might not gain the undead type but you are treated as one for the duration of the spell. Hence, you don't need to make fort saves unless the thing causing the need for the fort saves effects objects.

 

[green slime]

Berk:

And as Undead are immune to critical hits, would this render the caster immune to critical hits inflicted by weapons enchanted with the Keen Edge enchantment? Or just partially immune?

 

[Thanee]

Well, Keen Edge would work in either case, since the spell only affects spell effects.

Keen Edge transmutes the weapon and the spell has no effect on the protected character, just the weapon.

But I suppose you couldn't get hit critically by a Mordenkainen's Sword then, because that's a spell effect hitting them, not a real sword sharpened by magic.

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Thanee

 

[Thanee]

I've asked this very question on the Wizards' boards last year. You do not gain the Undead type. However, you are healed by Inflict spells and damaged by Cure spells. Ditto for Harm and Heal.

So in other words, if a spell has a specific effect on undeads, then you are affected by that spell, as if you were undead.

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Thanee

 

[gfunk]

So in other words, if a spell has a specific effect on undeads, then you are affected by that spell, as if you were undead.

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Thanee

Correct. Actually you put it better than I. For instance, you could be affected by the spell Control Undead. However, you do not get any other benefits (e.g. immuninity to crits, etc.).