FAQ Update

[AuraSeer]

Re: ???????

I thought that ANY type of magical healing removed ALL Subdual damage. Wouldn't Regeneration, then, remove all Subdual damage each round, at the Troll's (or whatever's) action? That's the way I interpretted this, anyway...

Magical healing repairs subdual damage in equal amounts with hit point damage. That is, if you are the subject of a Cure Light Wounds that restores 7 hp to you, it also removes 7 points of subdual damage.

Regeneration heals only subdual damage, not normal damage. It makes creatures hard to kill because it makes most attacks do subdual damage instead of having their normal effect.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

Re: Re: FAQ Update

-- DnD FAQ, 01/19/2003

-- Regeneration, SRD


The surprising bit is that, apparently, having your head removed will not cause suffocation. Even if you assume that creatures with regeneration have physiologies where "suffocation" is not actually caused by lack of oxygen to the brain, any creature that breathes will "suffocate" (in that it won't get oxygen to it's body parts) if you destroy the lungs or prevent blood from flowing. In other words, at some point even a creature with regeneration will die from suffocation if you keep hacking at it.

Which is why I always thought the they can suffocate rule was silly. I can rip a trolls lungs out and run them and the troll through a meat grinder making them hamburger like and there fine, but shove there head under water and watch out.

 

[CRGreathouse]

Re: Re: FAQ Update

Wow. Someone actually needed this cleared up?

1 theory is that answering questions like this is what made Skip the bitter, twisted, burnt-out shell of a man he is today.

For the record, hong, this is the first time you've made me laugh out loud. Good job!

 

[Wolf72]

add-on ... ammedndeumdnd ... more on hong's #1 ...

... and then having those same people argue with him and say they're going to do it their way anyway.