Regenerating Robots! (er.. Warforged)

[Slaved]

It certainly looks like it would not work, but the ring of regeneration is a waste of money anyway. If you can find a place to sell or trade it get a few useful items.

If you really want speedy healing for the warforged you can buy a lot of repair wands or you could go for the skin of the troll. Or you could just use the huge sum of money for a couple of points of armor class and get a bigger overall benefit, your call.

 

[Darklone]

It appears to me it only works on creatures with natural healing.

It uses the spell regenerate... that spell cures hitpoints. Warforged can be cured, so I guess it should work.

 

[airwalkrr]

According to a recent Sage Advice column, a warforged gains no benefit from a lesser vigor spell since half of fast healing 1 rounded down is 0. So based on that, I would say a ring of regeneration has no effect.

 

[pawsplay]

According to a recent Sage Advice column, a warforged gains no benefit from a lesser vigor spell since half of fast healing 1 rounded down is 0. So based on that, I would say a ring of regeneration has no effect.

Plus, the ring states that it replaces normal healing, which warforged don't have.

 

[Vegepygmy]

This is exactly why I would say the ring doesn't work for warforged. If the wearer of the ring doesn't meet the condition of already being able to heal 1 hp/level/day, they cannot benefit from the ring.

So if there were a race that naturally healed at the rate of 2 hp/level/day, would members of that race also be unable to benefit from the ring?

 

[Boondoggle]

According to a recent Sage Advice column, a warforged gains no benefit from a lesser vigor spell since half of fast healing 1 rounded down is 0. So based on that, I would say a ring of regeneration has no effect.

The problem with this interpretation with lesser vigor is that Augment Healing used with lesser vigor would then heal 3 hp/round, which is disgustingly broken. A more reasonable interpretation is to have lesser vigor heal 1 hp every 2 rounds and to have augment healing only heal extra damage on the first round. By extension, a ring of regeneration would heal at half the rate, not half the raw numbers.

 

[Deset Gled]

So if there were a race that naturally healed at the rate of 2 hp/level/day, would members of that race also be unable to benefit from the ring?

It would probably depend on the wording of the ability.

One possible outcome of such an ability would be that 1 hp/level was recovered per hour, and 1 additional hp/level healed with a night's rest