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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3099934" data-attributes="member: 18363">While I believe you are right about it slaying a Vampire (ie: preventing it from becoming mist upon falling to 0 hp and seeking a place to heal), I don't think it would slay a lich - not unless the killing blow was struck upon the phyllactery. There was an advanced lich a while back that had multiple phyllacteries. The Hunter of the Dead might be able to slay that lich by destroying only one of its phyllacteries. The problem is that the lich's life is not stored in their body (unlike a vampire and most other creatures). It is stored in the phyllactery. In effect, I tend to think of liches controlling their bodies from afar as if via some from of remote control. If their body is slain, well, the life force was not in it to begin with. For all non-liches, however, you are right. It the last blow - the strike that decreases the hp to 0 - is from a Hunter of the Dead (level 5+), then the undead is permanently destroyed. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/I've always wondered. Why do you suppose the PrCs with those few spells and miniscule spell lists are treated in such a way? Why not have it grant, say 3 or 4 levels of casting as a cleric (levels 2, 5, 8 or levels 1, 4, 7, 10)? Why not have the Assassin gain a similar number of levels as an arcane caster? In the end it would make it much easier to deal with PrCs like this. By the level they gain any casting, most of it is so low in level as to be borderline useless anyway. This way it could perhaps aid in the casting level and spells known of whatever class they needed to access the PrC in the first place - or a thematic appropriate class (such as cleric for HotD).</blockquote>

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