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<blockquote data-quote="Legildur" data-source="post: 1715690" data-attributes="member: 1258"><p>Our table-top crowd ran into what we thought was light trouble last night. Our party of 7th level characters came up against 4 spectre-like incorporeal undead. We put them away pretty easily and didn't think much of it until we went to heal the damage (hit points only) and found that we couldn't do so with rest or the standard cure wounds spells.</p><p></p><p>DM said that the damage was permanent and couldn't be healed - which we obviously didn't appreciate healing. Our paladin hits like a 7th level warrior-type, but now only has the hit points of a 5th level warrior - which has some obvious limitations. And 3 others of us took hits as well.</p><p></p><p>We looked through the spell descriptions for all the Restoration spells and couldn't find anything that dealt with permanent hit point drain. While we didn't get the name of these creatures, the DM said that they weren't standard fare (I don't know what book etc he got them from). And there was nothing in the creature description indicating how you might heal the damage.</p><p></p><p>So, how do you heal/cure such damage? Or are we stuffed?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Legildur, post: 1715690, member: 1258"] Our table-top crowd ran into what we thought was light trouble last night. Our party of 7th level characters came up against 4 spectre-like incorporeal undead. We put them away pretty easily and didn't think much of it until we went to heal the damage (hit points only) and found that we couldn't do so with rest or the standard cure wounds spells. DM said that the damage was permanent and couldn't be healed - which we obviously didn't appreciate healing. Our paladin hits like a 7th level warrior-type, but now only has the hit points of a 5th level warrior - which has some obvious limitations. And 3 others of us took hits as well. We looked through the spell descriptions for all the Restoration spells and couldn't find anything that dealt with permanent hit point drain. While we didn't get the name of these creatures, the DM said that they weren't standard fare (I don't know what book etc he got them from). And there was nothing in the creature description indicating how you might heal the damage. So, how do you heal/cure such damage? Or are we stuffed? [/QUOTE]
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