Hide Life? - Tome and Blood

[Thanee]

It must be worn to be effective, and sticking it onto some rotting finger, doesn't really help, I suppose.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Arravis]

Pour enough healing potions on the dust from disintigrate and you come back fine.

 

[Arravis]

You might want to take a look at this thread:
http://pub58.ezboard.com/fokayyourturnfrm14.showMessage?topicID=1338.topic

 

[Mr.Binx]

Pour enough healing potions on the dust from disintigrate and you come back fine.

There are a couple of flaws in this thinking:

1. Potions must be imbibed for them to be of any effect. Since dust cannot imbibe, an oil would need to be made instead. Since the dust is not alive and has no hit-poins, an oil of cure wounds or healing would be useless. Cure spells do not regenerate damaged or destroyed organs, you would need regeneration for that. Following this line of thinking, you would also need to determine how many hitpoints a disintegrated character posessed if someone can be at -5,000,000 hitpoints and still be allowed to take partial actions with the hide life spell.

2. Disintegrate's spell description says that the target vanishes leaving behind a trail of dust. Common thinking would lead one to believe that the dust is the physical remnants of the target, Nowhere does the spell state, however, state that said dust is actually the remnants of the vanished target. Since the spell component is a lodestone and a pinch of dust, that could very well be where the "trail of dust" originates (from the hand of the caster to target). I would think someone who was reduced to dust would instead form a pile and not a trail... ah well, loads of stuff to be left open to interpretation, neh?

 

[Someone]

Ah, but you can use the dust to cast resurrection so that must be the remnants of the target.

Then I wonder, Is the dust still capable of taking partial actions?

 

[Arravis]

Absolutely! And if you had spells cast on you before the disintigrate... they would still be on your new "dusty" form . Nothing like Hasted dust!

 

[drnuncheon]

About the healing at -10 and below... I don't have the book here, but I suppose that you can either use magical or normal (over time) healing to heal your wounds.

I don't think you can...

"Healing does not automatically return you to 0 hit points but simply adjusts your current total upward. If you would otherwise be dead, you cannot benefit from healing and simply fall down dead if the spell is ended." (emphasis mine)

On the other hand, that "Healing does not automatically return you to 0 hit points but simply adjusts your current total upward" bothers me - when does healing automatically return you to 0 hit points? Never, as far as I'm aware...

J

 

[Arravis]

0 hp=stabalized. As I recall, or healing spells automaticly stablize the target.

 

[Mr.Binx]

Ah, but you can use the dust to cast resurrection so that must be the remnants of the target.

Then I wonder, Is the dust still capable of taking partial actions?

Aha! The Resurrection spell description states "The remains of a creature hit by a disintegrate spell count as a small portion of its body" but nowhere in the Disintegrate spell description does it specifically say that there are any remains of the creature being left behind. MUWAHAHAHA!!! ! AHAHAHAEIEEEEE!!!! I aM THe KiNG oF aLL RuLe-PLaYeRS!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! <*cackle*>

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Hehe... sorry, I'm just being goofy now and I know it. I think this post is a side-effect of being stuck up at work doing OT and nothing to do but play emulator games and read message boards.

 

[Arravis]

I want to throw in a random encounter in my game that involves a 40th lvl Wizard dust