Searing Light and Vampires

[sanwah68]

I am currently playing a cleric and came across something weird.

The Searing Light spell does extra damage to undead vunerable to light. However, in the vampire's description, they are no longer vunerable to light. In fact in the whole Bestiary there is not one undead vunerable to light.

Is this right??

And, yes, I have looked at the errata on Vampires.

[Abraham spalding]

Count me confuddled if this doesn't mean vulnerable to sunlight but I thought:

Rules wrote:

Exposing any vampire to direct sunlight staggers it on the first round of exposure and destroys it utterly on the second consecutive round of exposure if it does not escape.

Was pretty well self explanatory.

[Are]

Not only is it self-explanatory, but it's the exact same text Vampires had before. So they're just as vulnerable to sunlight as they used to be :)

[Abraham spalding]

Also Wraiths have sunlight powerlessness -- which means they are vulnerable to sunlight (if not destroyed by it -- which is not the same thing).

[Pirate]

Yar!

Yes, there are some cases where a word is used for its meaning and not for its exact replication elsewhere. This, I believe, is one of those cases.

The only place where the word vulnerable even appears in the appendices and glossary is under Energy Vulnerability, which is it's own specific condition. Nothing in there on Light Sensitivity or Vulnerability. Thus, I'd go with it's meaning as mentioned already.

~P

[sanwah68]

Thanks guys,

We will see if my DM agrees with you :)

[Dominic Pirrello]

I hate to resurrect an old dead thread, but could we get a developer to weight in on this. The wording is fairly specific but my GM disagrees and he thinks vulnerable to bright light does not include vampires specifically. This is a case where rules as written and rules as intended appear to conflict.