[Grim Tales] Undead and Spell Burn

[The_Universe]

How do creatures like intelligent undead and constructs, with no constitution scores, deal with spell burn in Grim Tales?

If they don't have one of the adept talent trees, can they attempt to cast spells, at all? Are all spells essentially free, since there's no CON for the spell to burn? If they *do* have the magical adept talent tree, do spells that would bleed over into CON damage just fail?

Just curious! Someone fill me in!

 

[Kirin'Tor]

Well, as I see it you have a few options:

1) By D&D Standards: Totally immune to spellburn; makes undead spellcasters (liches!) more dangerous.
2) By D&D Inference (from Skills): All damage that would be CON is CHA damage. suck for the CHA based caster.
3) By D&D Interpolation: All Undead have a special 'Effective CON' score equal to charisma (or average of STR & DEX, or soemthing else) that, when it hit's 0, destroy's them, but has no other effect.

I'd go for #1 for big bad's - face it, there's gotta be a compellign reason for spellcasters to go undead. And use #2 for the more commonplace \ balanced encounters with Undead Spellslingers.

 

[The_Universe]

Interesting. I'm still wondering if there's an "official" Grim Tales ruling, though.

My inclination is to go with #1 and 2 for various things.

Thanks!

 

[Kirin'Tor]

I just checked through GT, no official word there. I'm sure Ben will be along soon enough, he's as close to offical as ya get.

 

[The_Universe]

Indeed. He's *so* good about answering stuff like this, I know I can post it here and get the real deal.

But, I bet it'll be something akin to what you've already suggested.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

"Officially," I will simply say that Lord Tyrannius is one rough customer, huh?

 

[The_Universe]

Hmm...methinks I missed a reference here. Can I take this to mean that Undead are untethered by spell burn?

 

[Kirin'Tor]

Sounds like they're Immune to me! (and spellburn...ba-dum-bum)