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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 3101974" data-attributes="member: 2642">Just kind of off the top of my head:All Undead creatures get a new statistic, Vigour Mortis (VM), representing their resistance to turning attempts. Undead creatures have VM equal to their Hit Dice plus any Turn Resistance they might have. Non-Undead creatures do not have this statistic.When a Cleric makes a turning attempt, he rolls for Turning Damage (no preliminary Charisma check is needed). Turning damage is 2d4 + the cleric's level + his or her Charisma modifier. This may be divided up among any Undead creatures present however the Cleric sees fit, so long as the Cleric has line of sight to all of them, and all are within 60 feet of the Cleric and 30 feet of each other. Non-Mindless Undead get a Will save (DC=10 + half Cleric's level + Cleric's Charisma modifier) to halve the turning damage assigned to them.The effects of turning damage are as follows. Note that, though Undead are immune to Fear effects per se, Turning usually has the same effects on Undead as Fear effects would on mortals.Turning Damage             Effect< 1/2 VM                     NoneAt least 1/2 VM              Fights and otherwise performs actions as though ShakenExactly equal to VM        Flees as though FrightenedGreater than VM            Flees as though PanickedGreater than 2xVM          Destroyed if VM < Cleric's level/2, otherwise as aboveTurning damage is slowly removed from Undead by the passage of time; periodically, such a creature gets a saving throw to remove 1d2 turning damage it has taken. The DC is calculated as above, and the Undead gets an unnamed bonus on this save equal to the number of previous saves it has made since it most recently received turning damage. An Undead with turning damage greater than or equal to its VM gets one save per minute. An undead with turning damage less than its VM gets one save each round at the beginning of its turn in combat.Cure spells may be used to add, and Inflict spells to remove, one point of turning damage per spell level instead of their normal effect, at the choice of the caster.Rebuking undead inflicts rebuking damage rather than turning damage. Rebuking damage has the same effects as turning damage, except that the rebuking Cleric may order (pseudo-)Frightened or Panicked undead to remain where they are rather than fleeing, and the rebuking cleric controls undead that a turning cleric would destroy.If an Undead creature has both turning and rebuking damage, the two do not stack for any purpose; in fact, they cancel out. For example, if an undead with 6 turning damage would receive 4 rebuking damage, this simply cancels out 4 points of turning damage; it ends up with 2 turning damage and no rebuking damage at all.(EDIT: Can anyone tell me how to do a simple table? The Help for VBcode doesn't tell me. Not only is there no command I can see for that, but the posting software won't even respect the spacing I included. That's why the chart of the effects is so ugly.)</blockquote>

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