I am currently running Carrion Crown, and one of the characters is a Dhampir. While this has made for some amusing times as the he desperately tries to avoid any damage at all (there is no one who can channel negative energy in the party), I have a concern about an upcoming fight with an incorporeal undead.
Since he has negative energy affinity and is healed by negative energy rather than harmed, it would seem that enemies such as ghosts or wraiths who do touch attacks with negative energy, he would actually be healed by their attacks! This seems like it is going to trivialize the encounter for him, and I was wondering if such attacks wouldn't actually work as a "channel negative energy to harm", where they can only harm living creatures and not heal undead. Specific details on fight below.
Just as disrupt undead emits positive energy but doesn't heal living creatures, negative energy attacks don't heal undead creatures unless the attack specifically says it does. So the dhampir is just as vulnerable as a human to these attacks.
Thank you very much!