Talk to me about illusions and undead

[Tom Cashel]

This is a straightforward question, with a straightforward answer that I think I know. But bear with me; I'm a DM who wants to get it right and not cheat the PCs this weekend.

>>Undead are immune to mind-affecting spells and effects.

Does this make them immune to illusions, or just immune to illusions that have the "[mind-affecting]" descriptor?

I think the latter is true, i.e. undead are immune to Phantasmal Killer but not immune to Veil or Invisibility.

Am I right? Wrong? Thanks, folks.

 

[hong]

I thought you were giving up D&D forever, Tom?

Undead are immune to mind-affecting effects. They can still be fooled by illusions generally, although specific ones (eg phantasmal killer) won't work.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Nah...at the behest of all those nice posters I took a break for two months. Did wonders for me. We're playing on Saturday.

Thanks for the confirmation.

 

[Murrdox]

I've had PC's use "Alter Self" to sneak past low-level undead before.. granted that's a transmutation and not an illusion... but same basic idea. You can fool low level undead with Minor Image and such as well.

 

[Destil]

Only phantasims are generally mind-affecting, unless an illusion specifically has the mind-affecting qualifier.

 

[Voadam]

Just illusions with the mind-affecting descriptor.

So all phantasms.