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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hafrogman" data-source="post: 5364547" data-attributes="member: 8858">*shrug* You always get into this kind of difficulty when defining things that don't exisit.  Of course, if you think they can be hurt by magic, but not swords, it leaves the question of what exactly is being burned/dissolved by acid/etc.  Even a ball of gas should be fanned away enough (1/2 damage) sword swings.  But it's probably easier to think of them as some kind of ectoplasm.  Weapons pass through pretty easily, but they splatter goo everywhere on the way out, slowly chipping away at the ghost's mass.  If the ghost's HP drops to zero it's been forcibly de-manifested.You could even incorporate the other ideas presented here, allowing the ghost to reform eventually (the next night?) unless killed the right way/laid to rest through a quest/etc.</blockquote>