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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7587889" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>Just a favor - could you tag this thread "5E" to clarify the edition? Our forum overlords have decided on a grand edition crossover in what used to be the 5E forum, and it's kind of confusing right now.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yup. It's kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. It is an ex-monster.</p><p></p><p>Though note that "if it can't survive without the lost head" is an important caveat. A hydra, for example, can lose a head and keep right on going. It might also be possible for a construct or undead creature to survive the loss of its head. There is no rule specifying exactly which creatures can survive decapitation; that's up to the DM to decide.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Nothing says the target drops to 0 hit points; so, technically, it dies at positive hit points, and effects that trigger on reducing a creature to 0 hit points would not be triggered. However, I would probably house rule that being insta-killed counts as reducing to 0 hit points.</p><p></p><p></p><p>For <em>revivify</em> and <em>raise dead</em>, you could read "missing body parts" in two ways. You could say that any severed/unattached body part is "missing," in which case a vorpal kill could not be undone by those spells; or you could say that a body part is only "missing" if it is not physically in contact with the rest of the body, in which case you could use <em>revivify</em> or <em>raise dead</em> as long as you retrieve the head and hold it in contact with the neck.</p><p></p><p>I would probably favor the latter approach, but I would see either one as a legit interpretation that does not rise to the level of a house rule.</p><p></p><p>Vorpal is one of those things that is always going to require a fair bit of adjudication.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7587889, member: 58197"] Just a favor - could you tag this thread "5E" to clarify the edition? Our forum overlords have decided on a grand edition crossover in what used to be the 5E forum, and it's kind of confusing right now. Yup. It's kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. It is an ex-monster. Though note that "if it can't survive without the lost head" is an important caveat. A hydra, for example, can lose a head and keep right on going. It might also be possible for a construct or undead creature to survive the loss of its head. There is no rule specifying exactly which creatures can survive decapitation; that's up to the DM to decide. Nothing says the target drops to 0 hit points; so, technically, it dies at positive hit points, and effects that trigger on reducing a creature to 0 hit points would not be triggered. However, I would probably house rule that being insta-killed counts as reducing to 0 hit points. For [I]revivify[/I] and [I]raise dead[/I], you could read "missing body parts" in two ways. You could say that any severed/unattached body part is "missing," in which case a vorpal kill could not be undone by those spells; or you could say that a body part is only "missing" if it is not physically in contact with the rest of the body, in which case you could use [I]revivify[/I] or [I]raise dead[/I] as long as you retrieve the head and hold it in contact with the neck. I would probably favor the latter approach, but I would see either one as a legit interpretation that does not rise to the level of a house rule. Vorpal is one of those things that is always going to require a fair bit of adjudication. [/QUOTE]
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